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Man Push Cart (2005) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on March 5th, 2021 at 15:47

A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream.

At 3:00 AM, Pakistani immigrant Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi) is already at work stocking his pushcart, which he then has to pull it by hand through the Manhattan streets with buses and cabs all around him. He once had a glorious future back in Lahore with a hit CD, but all that has vanished and seems like nothing more than a dream. His wife is dead and in-laws are raising his young son. They are reluctant to let Ahmad back in the boy's life. His dream is to make enough money so his son can live with him. One challenge after another knocks him down, not to mention the thousands of little humiliations and indignities which come his way from customers.

The inspiration for this riveting movie is Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus about a man whose eternal fate is to push a rock up a hill only to have it roll back down again. The philosophical insights come at the end when Camus writes: "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."

Director: Ramin Bahrani
Cast: Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval
Country: USA
Genre: Drama

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:27:09 | 41 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English/Urdu
Subtitles: English

Extras:
• Audio commentary from 2005 featuring Bahrani, director of photography Michael Simmonds, assistant director Nicholas Elliott, and actor Ahmad Razvi
• New conversation among Bahrani, Elliott, and Razvi on the making of the film (24:40)
• New conversation between Bahrani and scholar Hamid Dabashi on the origins of the film and Bahrani’s cinematic influences (19:22)
Backgammon, a 1998 short film by Bahrani (11:50)
• Trailer (1:58)