"Beetling around the tatty East Village, casually framing the twin towers downtown, it lifts the lid on a time that has been and gone: when the city was a melting pot of miscreants and misfits, when lowly bar staff could still afford Gotham rents,, and when every car came equipped with a cigarette lighter. Don't they have those any more? says Aronofksy, frowning at his untouched cup of herbal tea."
"Caught Stealing, he says, could almost be his parallel-universe first movie, given that it's set in 1998, around the time he was shooting his actual first film, Pi, on the same East Side streets. He was in his late 20s back then, subsisting on pizza and living in a fifth-floor walk-up. He was anxious and ambitious; he had his eyes on the prize. He now thinks he ought to have enjoyed himself more."
Darren Aronofsky's new film recreates late-1990s East Village New York, framing the twin towers and portraying a melting pot of miscreants and misfits. The setting emphasizes small-earnings bar staff affording rent and ubiquitous car cigarette lighters. The film, set in 1998, parallels Aronofsky's early days filming Pi on the same streets, when he lived modestly, subsisted on pizza, and felt anxious and ambitious. The work evokes 1990s looseness and innocence—post-Soviet relief, limited public focus on climate change, and a pre-millennium optimism that imagined futuristic progress. The director, now 56, contrasts this nostalgia with his darker filmography.
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