Filmed entirely on an iPhone, Ghost follows an ex convicts first day free as he navigates a new world of which he has a stark disconnect to.
Billed as a crime drama, Ghost revels in the quiet and the normality of urban life. It is less interested in classic tropes of the crime genre and instead invests it's time in a brilliantly authentic father and son dynamic. Both Streeters commanding father figure, Tony, and his hot headed son Conor are looking rekindle a relationship that ten years apart has shattered.
The point where the film excels is when the world is seen through Tony's visor of being plunged into an isolating and unrecognizable world. Here director Anthony Z James finds a contemporary resonance, aided by the world's current landscape. Tony's embodiment of dissonance with a changed world is easy to identify and empathize with. Ghost approaches a reflective look at change during a time when we feel it as much as Tony.
Ghost is a sorrowful and oddly timely tale of disconnect with a pulsing heart and affinity with genre that dissuades itself from mindless action and instead concentrates on tangible personal relationships.
Billed as a crime drama, Ghost revels in the quiet and the normality of urban life. It is less interested in classic tropes of the crime genre and instead invests it's time in a brilliantly authentic father and son dynamic. Both Streeters commanding father figure, Tony, and his hot headed son Conor are looking rekindle a relationship that ten years apart has shattered.
The point where the film excels is when the world is seen through Tony's visor of being plunged into an isolating and unrecognizable world. Here director Anthony Z James finds a contemporary resonance, aided by the world's current landscape. Tony's embodiment of dissonance with a changed world is easy to identify and empathize with. Ghost approaches a reflective look at change during a time when we feel it as much as Tony.
Ghost is a sorrowful and oddly timely tale of disconnect with a pulsing heart and affinity with genre that dissuades itself from mindless action and instead concentrates on tangible personal relationships.