Living My Best Life in Hudson Yards
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Danny Garfield
Genres: comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A fool wanders Manhattan's most aggressively branded neighborhood while every shred of his personal data gets monetized in real time. A glimpse of the glorious future, brought to you by your own behavior.
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Someone finally pointed a camera at Hudson Yards and treated it like the dystopia it is. Bless.
Garfield shoots smart-city satire inside the actual Hudson Yards — Adam Curtis editing a Nathan Fielder bit about loyalty programs. The location is the indictment.
Shooting the smart-city satire inside the actual Hudson Yards, letting the place be the dystopia it always wanted to be — that's the right location instinct. Page copy is light on specifics about how Garfield executes, which leaves me only moderately convinced.