Before I Disappear

Review: Before I Disappear (Shawn Christensen, 2014)

I visit New York City a lot, and whenever I’m there I feel like I’m – what I describe as – closer to the source. I’m not sure what that means, but sometimes I think I lived there in a past life, not that I believe in that sort of thing. Anyway that may have something to do with why I like movies that take place there as much as I do. The city itself is a character, and there’s an inherent kind of vibe that comes along with those films, which you don’t easily get from other locations. It isn’t phony and it isn’t make believe, it feels more than real but not fictionally so. It’s as if the City lends itself to a movie in a way only New York can, in a way that improves the production by a few notches.

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