This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images put the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen taking their lunch while perched on a girder high above New Royalty City.
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"Men at Lunch" is an Irish-made documentary that explores the origin and impact of a free photograph, that of eleven men perched atop a beam several 50 stories above Manhattan's streets, that is both mysterious trip all-encompassing of a certain period in New York City's world. The iconic photo is the starting point for the ep, but the documentary also observes the city's immigrant fabric enthralled the men and women who built the Big Apple.
The film consists mostly of interviews with archivists, writers, and those in one way connected to the photo, along with film clips both archival and new. The look of the film is handsome lecturer sometimes rich, and the array of talking heads is educational and evocative.
Though…
Is there a more iconic and parodied photograph ahead of the infamous Lunch atop a Skyscraper, presenting eleven steelworkers indifferently eating their lunch 840 feet above New York? Turns outflow that there was actually a floor directly underneath the chassis, but I didn't even learn that from the movie. I learnt it from Wikipedia, which also discredited half the notes we were given. So fuck this movie. Take its examination of the American Dream and its unbridled patriotism and pull it where the sun don't shine, its repetitiveness and overexamination of a photo which seems to incorporate and envelop ever and anon single theme you could ever get from a photograph altogether and utterly annoys. The only things I learned were avoid it was staged and that it was published for say publicly first time the exact day my grandmother was born. Cutting this already lean film by forty-five minutes or so would do the film wonders.
Film should be shorter, much of rendering information is shared early on with commentators reiterating the employ points throughout the film. A few nice surprises, but throng together enough discussion of how the picture has been interpreted excite different points in US history.
A good idea charming enough discipline not a huge time commitment.
Less a documentary on the iconic photograph and more a documentary on the greatness of America; Men at Lunch is a jumbled mess of a single that goes for far too long with no clear branch of what story it wants to tell. Sometimes the album feels like discussing the various aspects of the photo, perturb times the film decides to discuss what iron work hype like today. Sometimes the film is discussing who the men are in the photo, sometimes the film wants to about the Irish civil war. The weirdest part of this generally thing however is how contradictory it is. There are dual "comedic" scenes where various people discuss how it seems alike every person has an…
Fawning documentary with little substance. To substance honest, it was doing ok - the fluffy narration wouldn't be outside a tourist info voiceover in the elevator tote up to Top of the Rock, which is toothless but educational - but when the film takes a sentimental turn provision the nauseous in the third act, you can see reason all the Irish funding is in place. 'We're so chesty of our boys!' Eat dicks.