It
is said that if you stand in the intersection at Times
Square for 24 hours, you cannot fail to run into someone
that you know or who knows someone you know. While this
is based on the laws of probability and statistics, director
Peter Matsoukas took that idea and ran with it. However,
rather than dealing with an intersection at Times Square,
he decided to look at a non-famous intersection. Over
the course of 48 hours, he examines how a group of six
people all end up interacting with one another with the
single common denominator being the intersection it occurs
on.
There's
no way to review this film without giving some of the
film's secrets away. As such, I will try to be discreet
as possible.
The
story of the Intersection is the story of six people.
Or rather, it's the story of three people and three people
that make their lives problematic.
Cole
is a schizophrenic with social difficulties and violent
tendencies. He begins the movie by beating his boss to
death because he feels persecuted and then begins to look
for a way out of the city.
Ron
is a manipulative hedonist that keeps a woman named Ruby
in an apartment for easy access when he's horny and has
a variety of other women "stashed" around the
city. He's so used to getting his way that, when he runs
into a woman named Dori, who wouldn't have sex with him,
he decides to try and rape her.
Ruby
is Ron's kept woman who lives in the apartment he provides.
She longs to go out into the real world, but he forces
her to stay in the apartment. Eventually she grows resentful
and refuses to have sex with him until he takes her out
into the big city with him.
Martin
is an introspective screenwriter that is shacked up with
Dori. He's so introspective that he doesn't realize that
he's losing her until it's too late.
Dori
is a tramp that has had a few affairs outside of her boyfriend,
Martin, and has finally settled on the idea of moving
on from him to her new squeeze, Kyle. What she doesn't
count on is running into Ron as she's on her way home
to officially break up with Martin.
Kyle
is Dori's new squeeze and is the least emotionally disturbed
of the six people in the film. He feels bad about sneaking
around with Dori behind Martin's back, even though he
doesn't know Martin. He forces Dori to go out and break
it off with Martin before he'll continue to sleep with
her.
