for once ( at last ) extremes inform the middle and the down and out the up and in and long island blue collar barflies the rest of u so call well adjust . this demand the proper mix of compassion and dispassion and which for buscemi and a for others similarly gift and lead to an almost inseparable mix of comedy and pathos represent up be down and down be up . buscemi play himself and or what he probably would have be have he not find his talent in movie making and namely and a loser trap in a downward spiral of unemployment and drug and alcohol and and loneliness and familiar ingredient of endless movie and tv docudrama and talk show and and news and all humbuggery and false preaching while so familiar and in fact and a to pose an american fixation and something we see so much of that we no longer see at all . he not afraid to let thing get ugly and really ugly and down right squalid . an unemployed and unemployable car mechanic end up by default drive an ice cream truck through the sun drench tree line street of suburbia and a peculiarly american version of hell . strange to say and the whole mess be uplifting and absurd while buscemi love his character and wart and all while he warm u to them with a wealth of detail and emerge u in a whole crowd of people and complete with it own history and past and each member whole and completely form and with hardly a trace of exaggeration or artifact and a false note or cliche . because more be at stake the american dream this be a good movie than buscemi i living in oblivion ( 1995 ) and which be about the trial and tribulation of make an independent film on a shoe string . because both film be center on the social life of a bar and comparison to barbet schroeder i barfly be invite while but the latter hero be a diamond in the rough and while the one here be just a schmegegge .