This film has documentary aspects but it has been made differently to how most documentaries are. It has a more personable feel to it, as if Nadelman is taking the audience though a photo album telling stories of what the bar and the people were like, but each photo led to the other which made it easy to follow. Nadleman was also able to show how the people aged over the years to show how their lifestyle was affecting their bodies, showed how time had passed. They were able to use the music and the pictures together at points the pictures moved to the beat of the music that helped the whole film to flow a lot more. The film gave a special insight into what it is like living in that part of New York the bar owner was able to show us in the view of the observer he stayed at the same place when the people who came to the bar changed so he was able to tell us all about the people he had insights into their lives other people didn’t know. The music and the photographs gives the audience more of a feel of what the atmosphere of the bar would have been like when everyone was in there being able to show all of the people who were in the bar in their most relaxed environment when nothing was expected from them.
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