Fails To Entertain

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2017)

So I think this movie is saying that terrible people can be capable of beautiful art. It spends its time following around a folk singer bumming through Manhattan. He gets his friend's girlfriend pregnant, he sleeps at other peoples' apartments, he treats people poorly, and then he gets on stage and sings nicely. That's it. When the movie ended, I decided I hadn't really cared about anything I'd watched, and I wasn't especially taken by its message, either. Are the filmmakers trying to excuse themselves for something they've done by making a movie about the redeeming qualities of art? It's kind of like what Woody Allen seemed to be saying with Deconstructing Harry. But the bottom line was that there weren't any very entertaining moments.