The movie "Good Time" is about people who are barely alive in this world and wondering how they will survive or avoid winding up in prison or dead. Its about two brothers, one a criminal and the other mentally disabled, then a bank robbery, then the mentally disabled brother winding up in prison and from there an insane ride into oblivion that proves that as low as you may be in life, you can always go lower. I wonder of the title Good Time is being sarcastic because no one watching this movie can consider one minute of this story a good time.
Good Time is a low budget movie starring Robert Pattinson who it seems has decided to make mostly low budget movies ever since he hit it big with the "Twilight Saga" a few years ago. Pattinson's acting in this film is impressive, perhaps even impressive enough to receive an Academy Award nomination, despite the fact that this movie is very small and low budget. Good Time is directed by the Benny and Josh Safdie hwo have collaborated on several movies over the years and this is the first one of their films I have seen. The most impressive directing achievement with this movie was capturing the gritty and desperate environment that Pattinson's character and his brother live in, with no chance, purely by accident of birth to ever break out of their miserable depressing existence. This movie also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, who has a very small part and Bennie Sadfie who plays Pattinson's mentally disabled brother.
This movie captures a desperate world of running from the police and barely surviving in the streets of New York City, has very good acting and do recommend it.
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