"It's like "I Love Lucy" without the accents and without the humor." Yep, definitely the type of town that young gay people rush out of and rarely visit once they've graduated from high school. This is the type of film that you feel guilty for laughing out but can't help it. Levittown New York was created at the end of World War II for returning best to settled into, so 50 years after that, they were all grandparents and seemingly out of touch with the times. But everybody has a story to tell, and here they do tell it, like it or not.
If I didn't research this film, I'd swear it was a parody, but these people are far too real and honest to be phonies. Everybody that they show that has survived from the 40's to the 1990's in this town has their own personality, eccentricities and weird habits, and it's obvious that they pretty much know all of the secrets of everybody on their block, especially since everybody was placed alphabetically by last name.
It's obviously a beautiful town to be raised in, but as time change and young people get older, it's also obviously colorless and "by the book" where no one of any other group is welcome, and all those other groups probably would not want to live there. This documentary just allows the camera to roll, let these longtime residents do the talking, some doing it far too much and just becoming aggressive to hear their own voice. In a sense, they've created their own prison, one where the bars are on the brain, not on the doors. Amusing, but not a place I'm putting on my "got to visit" list.
If I didn't research this film, I'd swear it was a parody, but these people are far too real and honest to be phonies. Everybody that they show that has survived from the 40's to the 1990's in this town has their own personality, eccentricities and weird habits, and it's obvious that they pretty much know all of the secrets of everybody on their block, especially since everybody was placed alphabetically by last name.
It's obviously a beautiful town to be raised in, but as time change and young people get older, it's also obviously colorless and "by the book" where no one of any other group is welcome, and all those other groups probably would not want to live there. This documentary just allows the camera to roll, let these longtime residents do the talking, some doing it far too much and just becoming aggressive to hear their own voice. In a sense, they've created their own prison, one where the bars are on the brain, not on the doors. Amusing, but not a place I'm putting on my "got to visit" list.