Marty Supreme

Maybe Ronald Bronstein was the second Safdie brother all along??

I love how the opening scene shoots you out of a cannon & doesn’t let up until things come to a screeching halt in the final scene. It’s easily my favorite bookend on a movie of the year. Lots of great endings this year, but not many openings that match them equally.

I can’t stop thinking about the juxtaposition of the ending of Uncut Gems with the ending of Marty Supreme. Everyone keeps saying they are the same movie, but they very clearly aren’t. The difference in the endings is a clear evolution in not only Safdie as a filmmaker, but as a person.

Sure, Howard Ratner and Marty Mauser are cut from the same cloth, but their stories aren’t. Howard is a greedy addict & Marty is an arrogant kid in his 20s dreaming so big that he thinks he’s got it all figured out. Now can those two look very similar on the surface? Sure, but if you poke a bit deeper you realize a major difference between the two. Howard has decided who he is and has no room for growth. Marty on the other hand is just young & naive, but still has room to grow.

Marty Supreme is ultimately a movie about how painful it can be for overly ambitious people to start living for something other than themselves. And how beautiful it is once they actually do. How life can (and often does) change in the blink of an eye.