City of Hope (1991)
Directed by John Sayles
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
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Derek Cianfrance attempts a macro-micro social approach that worked well for projects such as John Sayles’s “City of Hope.”
Nashville for a fictional Jersey metropolis coloured by John Sayles' working-class and race concerns, City of Hope is a devilishly complicated picture structured around a restless camera and the smooth passage of dialogue from one storyline to the next.
Sayles is a wonderful storyteller, and many of his low-budget, independent films - "Return of the Secaucus Seven," "Matewan," "Passion Fish," "The Brother From Another Planet," "Eight Men Out" and "City of Hope" - are filled with humor and wit, universal themes and realistic plotting, and despite some occasional dark subjects, heart and hope.
John Sayles, a filmmaker best known for the issue-oriented realism of "Matewan" and "City of Hope," adapted this fey fable from Rosalie K. Fry's 1957 novella about a boy raised by seals.
With its emphasis on pornography's people and period not, as will be assumed, the process the film is strongly reminiscent of the distinctly American sagas Nashville, GoodFellas, City of Hope and Pulp Fiction (big, complicated yet personal movies all, as this one very much is).