Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Hello, my friends, and welcome back to Movie Deputy Reviews. I still hope you're loving the intro and the outro on these videos. After all, we've only had one up so far. But then this is another one. You probably thought I forgot about you this morning. Nope.
And if you're wondering what I'm wearing for my shirt, this is actually a cat page that I follow. I absolutely love them and all their kitty cats. If you didn't know, I'm a crazy cat lady. So this is Willow Gloom in the Minions.
So if you like cats, you're definitely going to want to check them out, but that's not what we're talking today. Today we're talking about the only living pickpocket in New York. Now, you may be wondering, what is this about? Well, kind of tells you right there.
Is that all there is to it? Well, we're going to get a little bit more into that, but as you probably notice, I look a little bit different. I'm trying something new today. I'm going without the one without my ears. And so I actually can't hear this as I'm doing this, which is kind of a weird thing for me, but I wanted it to sound more natural, so I also switched mics.
So we're going to kind of play this out, see how this goes. It's either going to be a spectacular success or a rousing failure. I guess we're going to figure that out together.
But with this movie, you're going to recognize some very, very famous faces. In this movie, there's. There's a lot of very recognizable faces that have been in a lot of other Hollywood projects.
But what does that mean for this one? This one, I should say it's an indie film. Very much an indie film.
It's going all these, like, amazing awards at these independent film festivals, but, you know, I don't focus on that. I look at the plot and the content and the target audience and just kind of all that.
And then I also, like, call out, like, all the Hollywood gobbledygook and everything like that that's in movies and stuff nowadays.
This one, it's not. I wouldn't. I wouldn't call it woke or anything like that, but it's.
It's slow. It's a very slow burn.
Now, what does that mean? But if you're familiar with movies, it's like, it's got a very, very slow. It's the building of it is very slow as the story goes on. It's obviously about a pickpocket and we're going to get into that a little bit more here in a second.
But it builds and builds and builds and builds and builds. And when you expect the crescendo, it's not quite what you expect. You know me. No spoilers. I'm not going to spoil anything.
But what does that mean for the movie? Well, because of some of the content in this movie, I am giving the only living pickpocket in New York. Don't worry, I'm not telling you the score yet. I'm giving it a guilty rating.
So I would definitely recommend this for adult. It's got a very, very heavy tone to the movie that it's just you. This. If you enjoy the more intellectual type films that just kind of carry you along to get you to that, to that final precipice that the movie gets to, then you're probably going to enjoy this one. But let's check out the review and. Or not the. The trailer. Let's check out the trailer together and see what this is.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: You know what you did wrong? It wasn't the lift. You did that swell.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: You're like, wait, this movie's about a pickpocket. So why is he stopping another pickpocket? And why is he pickpocketing the pickpocket?
That's way too many pickpockets in one sentence.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: Need something to hide, isn't it? Sometimes. You got a newspaper or a magazine since it. Yeah, I'm full of them.
You gotta take it day by day.
We're everywhere. If you keep an eye out.
[00:03:52] Speaker C: Hey,
[00:03:53] Speaker B: when you come into work with us old dogs,
[00:03:55] Speaker C: you gotta learn some new tricks.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Nothing's as good as a five finger discount watches.
[00:04:01] Speaker D: That's for godsy.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: You had platinum cards.
[00:04:04] Speaker D: Even suckers get a day off sometimes.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: All right, honey, I'm sorry we lost the day together. Maybe I'll grab a tape at the library. Something with Barbara Stanwyck.
Let me get it for you.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: Now, in the scene at the car came up, there was a collective gasp in the theater. Just because, I mean. Oh, come on. It's a classic. If you like classic cars. That's going to be at least one scene in this movie that will definitely get your attention. But as you're noticing, he's doing more than just grifting cash.
Certain things he's doing are tangible. And you can't really. You can't take a wristwatch to a store and buy what you're going to buy, and you can't take something else any like little purses or wallets or little doohickeys. You can't take those into a store to buy, so you have to find somewhere to dispose of them or somewhere to sell them. So that's maybe a little bit more what that scene was about. If that was confusing to any of you.
[00:05:12] Speaker E: Dude, that's where he got you.
[00:05:14] Speaker F: Okay, there he is.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: We live in a world of surveillance.
[00:05:18] Speaker F: You know the consequence of stealing from a family like mine,
[00:05:21] Speaker A: especially in New York City of all places.
[00:05:24] Speaker F: There's no coming back from this.
I'm feeling lost today.
What are you into, Harry?
[00:05:32] Speaker A: I tried to find my way back, but let's get past Chase.
I need it back. Everything
[00:05:40] Speaker D: gets sent out,
[00:05:43] Speaker B: man. This is serious.
I lost something. It's real important. I get it back.
It's tough to lose things.
I spend my life in people's pockets.
You never had anything to give. In my line, you don't get many second chances to do things the right way. I'm feeling lost today.
Hello, sir.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: As you probably saw, this is only in the theaters this fall. It came out, I believe, this weekend.
I actually saw that I had a chance to see this at an earlier screening on one of the mystery movie nights that is hosted by many local theaters around the country.
But that's when I had a chance to see this one. And like I said during that one scene, classic car, if you're in. If you're looking for the movie to be about classic cars, no. But for those who are having a hard time staying focused on the movie that like classic cars, that scene helps.
Now, with this, you have a pickpocket who has been a pickpocket his whole life or most of his adult life. And that is what he does for a living.
Think of like grifters or professional panhandlers, etc, except he tries to say that he works for a living by picking pockets. That's really kind of a twisted logic on that.
But in this, he ends up picking something that he shouldn't have picked.
It almost sounds like a tongue twister, but that's not where I'm going with that. Well, when he tries to unload this thing, as we know digital things leave digital footprints, and when he likes it, he tries to unload it. It uploads some information to where it is, and then some people start coming after him.
Well, he does what he does to support somebody that he loves. Now, that's a little bit touched on here in the trailer, but I'm not going to spoil it by telling you what the Details of that are.
But as this, the whole thing goes is he learns that basically there's a price to picking pockets. But along the way, it's a little bit of a catch me if you can type situation where. Or even like a little bit of National Treasure where you're almost like working with the police and working against the police at the same time. And that kind of a complicated relationship or friendship there that has developed.
And so here you see a guy basically pickpocketing to have a living, to care for himself and his loved one. And then you see him trying to reconnect with humanity on a deeper level for some mistakes years ago, for some stuff that happened again, no spoilers ever. You know me.
But ultimately, when he finds himself in this very difficult situation, he doesn't really know where to turn. And when he's finally given out of where to turn to, it's not what he thinks and it's not what you think either.
There's a few twists. Like I said, it's incredibly slow.
It's not supposed to be necessarily entertaining. This is not one that's going to make you laugh, make you cry.
It's not going to take you all over the place and kind of lead you all over the place. This is just a very slow burn story that intellectuals who like deep stories about criminals as per se.
But I mean, there is a reason he's doing it. But does that justify really borders on the more moral ground on this one? Obviously what he's doing is wrong, but is there any sense of morality for what he's doing? Is it Robin Hoodish or is it.
Is there something deeper to all of this that's going on?
You're gonna. If this is sounds at all interested, you'll have to figure that out because you know me, I'm not going to give it away.
But when, like I said, when the ending does happen, it's not the precipice that you might expect.
Now does it carry it enough?
That's up for debate.
I honestly had to refer back to my phone when somebody asked me about this movie just a couple days later, I'm like, I know, I saw it.
That might give you a few of you a hint of where I'm going with the score here on this one.
Ultimately, with the only living pickpocket in New York as exceptional as some pieces of the movie. Notice I'm not talking scenes. I'm saying pieces of the movie are ultimately, it's very forgettable and maybe not for some. There's always Going to be some out there that going, this is my favorite movie of all time, blah, blah, blah, that's great.
But for the audience that I'm talking to, for you, I look at the plot, I look at the content, I look at the appropriate age, I look at if there's holes, I look at just the continuity stuff. I look at.
I don't focus on the Hollywood gobbledygook. I really don't. And I don't care if it's a list, B list, or no list, I will review a movie evenly and fairly. And I'm noticing this is really hard to keep my hair out of my face without my ear, without my headphones on.
And so what I'm trying to do with this one, you know me, I'm not going to give too much of it away, but is it enough?
This may sound very interesting to some of you and maybe you read something else on this movie and this is something you're going to want to check out and that's great.
But if not, if you are not into those really kind of slow burn stories that don't have the, they don't have the build up that you're expecting or the at the end. And for those on our podcast, of course, thank you all for listening. I'm doing like this explosion type thing. It's not that there's an actual explosion in the movie, but you know how a lot of slow burn movies, they finally, finally build up and they build up and they build up and they build up and then you're. Then there's a payoff to it. The one that's in this one, like I said, is not quite what you would expect.
Does that mean it's washable?
I would still call it watchable, but I would also call it forgettable.
And for that reason, I'm giving the only living pickpocket in New York A 4 out of 10 on the Deputy scale. Now, again, this does not equate to like a 40%. A 4 on the movie deputy scale. It's watchable but forgettable. One of those ones that you may be glad maybe watched it once. It was interesting to at least watch it once, but a couple days later, maybe hours later, you're gonna completely forget about it unless it comes up and then just, oh, I remember something about that movie. But like I said, I know there's gonna be you out there, that this is gonna be your favorite movie. Great, I'm glad you love it.
But for the general audience, this one, this one is not designed for just for a general target audience.
And I hope that this review will help those find those of you that want to find a movie like this and that those of you that don't, I hope that this will help all of you.
So as always, hit those buttons, stick around for our Outro video.
And of course I will be back soon. Bye.
