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When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was "true to her character."
This quasidocumentary follows four real single people living and looking for love in New York City, but director Nicholas Barker has taken some crucial liberties--the dialogue in the film is scripted, based on conversations with his subjects.
References Barker 1974; Braddy 1960; Chicano Pinto Research Project 1975; Coltharp 1965; Demello 1993; Govenar 1988
References Arias 1975; Barker 1950; Cerda and Farias 1953; Katz 1974; Rodriguez 1993; Smethurst 1995
Some critics are fascinated by the new possibilities opened up by this license and call the film "one of the more original movies of the year" (David Denby, New York ). Others are uneasy about the intimate, sad, and somewhat mocking portraits that emerge of these deeply flawed and lonely individuals and call the film "depressing and undeniably cruel" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ). (Read Slate 's David Edelstein on Barker's quest for "larger dramatic truths."