Great message about exposing the powerful held back by flawed pacing
Motherless Brooklyn has a very important message but it’s delivery is deeply flawed. That’s because the movie has a very exciting introduction and then drags for the rest of the first half to the point that you’re asking yourself whether anything will ever happen. The second half is much, much better but it takes an entire hour for it to develop.<br /><br />The movie was written and directed by Edward Norton. It’s in part based upon a mystery novel by the same name by Jonathan Lethem that features a detective Lionel who has Tourettes who looks into the murder of his boss Frank Minna. Norton took that base and added Robert Moses a former New York City public official responsible for creating many of the bridges and parks in New York City. He was originally considered one of the city’s greatest fathers until 1974 when Robert Caro’s The Power Broker came out which detailed how this unelected official destroyed large parts of the city that were inhabited by poor and minority residents to make way for his public projects.<br /><br />Norton took elements of the film noir genre to bring it all together as seen by Lionel’s voice over commentary and his role of the small guy fighting against the powerful. The problem as stated at the beginning is the pace. Things start with Frank Minna (Bruce Willis) being killed by mysterious men in a deal gone wrong and Lionel being unable to save him. He then sets out to solves his murder, but then nothing happens for literally an hour. Things get going when he meets Laura Rose (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who works in the city’s anti-discrimination office who is working against New York’s declaring whole neighborhoods blighted so it can evict people and redevelop the area. Lionel finds out that Moses Randolph (Alec Bladwin), who is the Robert Moses charcter in the film, is behind it all. Even when things finally kick into gear there are certain scenes that could have been editing to pick things up.<br /><br />The importance of the movie is not just to introduce people to Robert Moses, but that what he represents. The powerful that work behind the scenes and can shape whole cities and countries. In one scene Lionel recounts what Frank told him that before World War II Americans were trying to work together through the hard times of the Great Depression, but after the war, the U.S. had seen what it could do with pure power and it was going to take that lesson and apply it at home. Moses was an example of that ethos as he reshaped the entire city of New York by displacing millions of people, and never had to answer to anyone but himself. As Norton said in a recent interview, people in the United States are not brought up and educated that such people as Moses are supposed to not exist in a democracy, but they do, and they need to be exposed. The problem is the vehicle Norton picked, this film, was badly edited and fails at entertaining for half of its run therefore detracting from its message.
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