Go! Go! Go! (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #44 extract: Go! Go! Go! (1964)



A fascinating city symphony of sorts, one that depicts 60s New York at an extremely fast pace, projecting the rhythms and forward motion of the collective masses within. In such, this isn't necessarily just a day in the life short for a city, but a short that has some hints of the different pathways through life that people take. We then see the camera stop for a while and focus on its human subjects in a way that has us consider lives blending into one; one day we're free on a beach, one day we graduate, the next we're at work, another we're getting married. All of this happens through time and all at once. And such a sense of everything and nothing happening in a blurred cycle and in a dazed flash is inherent to the city symphony, but Go! Go! Go! certainly captures this quite well.

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