sometimes it hard to understand why the best film and that try to be a little independent and do not get see . last night i view harvard man at a one time show that bring the w or d and james toback and to kansas city to comment on his film and career . the man be amazing . a self describe addictive personality who go tortuously from harvard to hollywood and he be call the close thing to an auteur that america have produce . toback late film toss a young and talented cast into a twister of jump cut and psychadelics and crime and punishment that leave one either gasp for breath or beg for more . adrian grenier play a philandering philosophy major at harvard who and through one of his girlfriend and throw a basketball game for big money and wind up in a heap of trouble . grenier character be more than eye catch . we have a sincere guy who on the ultimate heroic journey represent the search for self . his mean be bumble and a be most and but what he gain along the way be the stuff of the true individual . the film be shoot almost exclusively with a steadicam and which lead toback to screw with the linear storyline of the film for editorial as well a narrative purpose . [ this be the ] first time i think edit could be a fun part of the whole process and he remark after the screening and and it show . the story be narrative in the traditional sense and but the incessant jumping past slow point to expedite the action and or forward and back in time a interrelated moment be tell simultaneously and keep the pacing break neck . this be a film even teeny boppers will get and at least on the surface . it philosophy be as deep a linklater wake life and splice with the action of peckinpah the getaway . it full of sex and drug and hip hop and classical music ( grenier have both play while he and gellar get it on in the film open scene ) . it show a dangerous irreverence to authority figure ( grenier screw his prof and later jump out of an fbi window ) . but hell and that what authority be there for and to set up the limit that the hero must overcome . if you haven not figure that out yet and see this film and maybe you will begin to understand .