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Practically everyone in this movie has a moral compass thats gone kablooey or will in the near future.
And those are two of the central pleasures this movie provides.
When considered purely on terms that arent informed by its predecessor,Many Saintsis a much thinner experience.
What is most thought-provoking aboutThe Many Saints of Newarkis what it says about mythologizing the past.
In this movie, Chase and Konner place us back in that supposedly better America.
Immediately, the film shows us that Tonys idealizations are a lie.
Even some of the narration plays like a scene from the most fucked-up episode ever ofThe Wonder Years.
He choked me to death.
But that was much later.
The faint outlines are there.
But in its subtext, this movie tells us that nothing is as good as you might hope.
Thats true of the era that Tony would later, wrongly, glorify.
