Chop Shop

Two Siblings Stuck in a Junkyard World, Struggling to Survive and Dream

Because the last shot of Ramin Bahrani’s “Chop Shop” is as quiet and matter-of-fact as most of the rest of the film, it takes a moment to register as a metaphor. For nearly an hour and a half we have been immersed in the rhythms of daily life in the battered Willets Point section of Queens, and Mr. Bahrani’s hand-held camera has remained studiously fixed at street level. Now, all of a sudden, it pitches upward to follow a flock of pigeons breaking toward the sky, a shift in perspective that also changes, subtly but unmistakably, our understanding of the movie. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4150 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 27 febbraio 2008