Is America's Heyday Over?
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Is America's Heyday Over?:
ONE OCTOBER is a lyrical time capsule that offers a window into the shifting heart of New York City. Filmed entirely in October of 2008, a time when gentrification is rapidly displacing the working and middle classes, Wall Street is plummeting, and Senator Obama is making his first presidential bid, the story begins with Clay Pigeon, an intrepid radio host who takes to the streets of New York City to talk to everyday citizens who are facing the uncertainty of change.
As part of what he calls a "radio experiment," this transplanted Iowan roams the streets bearing a handheld recorder and a kindly probing nature: "Has he popped the question?" "When is the last time you've had a regular roof over your head?" "Do you love America?"
During his neighborhood rambles, Clay Pigeon meets people like Kristin, an optimistic young woman who has just arrived from the Midwest; Mark, a union construction worker still dusty from his workday and deeply in debt; Nicole, a transgender woman looking for an accepting community; and Stacy, a single mother in Harlem worried about gentrification.
Pigeon's encounters interweave with observational passages that poignantly reveal urbanist Jane Jacobs's idea of the "ballet of the good city sidewalk": roller-skaters wind their way through Central Park, city dwellers seek blessings for a motley group of pets on St. Francis Day, observant Jews toss breadcrumbs into the Hudson River on Rosh Hashanah, and Muslims mark the end of their Ramadan fast with Eid al-Fitr prayers and expressions of forgiveness. Amid these celebrations of daily life we see the shifting landscape of the city: big-box stores and mega-chains rapidly replace independent businesses, giant glass buildings are erected where flea markets once stood, and luxury condos loom over small brick tenements.
Nuanced, cinematic, and often humorous, ONE OCTOBER charts the chasm between one's desires and one's means, explores the urgent need to conserve the old amid the glorification of the new, and affirms the notion that a varied streetscape is essential to the health of a dynamic metropolis. Seen from our current vantage point, the film is also a remarkable time capsule that presages the roiling political upheaval spreading across the country today.
Script:
Good evening everybody. And welcome to the dusty show. My name's clay T. And I'm glad that you've taken the time to tune you tonight. Over the course of the last week, I went out on the streets a little bit here in Manhattan and, and talked to people at Madison square park and Tomkins. That's always interesting to see how the random collection of souls falls.
Together and how the next chapter bears fruit or lies fallow. This is Tristan. Tristan. Where are you from? I'm from Germany. Tristan is staged this interview so that we're standing on a stone wall over Bryant park. You didn't want just a typical interview. Did you? You're not a typical man. Oh, this is an interview.
Yes. Oh. Whoa.
no. Do you love Germany? I love Germany. Tell me one crystal and moment from your childhood in Germany, something you'll never forget running alone through nature. ING leather Hoen later, later Hoen of course in dark winter time. And my mother always said, well, you know, as long as you're dressed warmly on one side of somebody, it's okay.
You think so? So people in school considered me as a complete, you know, crazy guy, but, uh, my mother finally encourages. Uh, theory and I've been rightly, uh, you know, disregarded by society and I survived somehow the streets. So your mother's a free thinker. My mother is very revolutionary. What about your father?
Let's talk about your dad a minute. He is anti-hero. Do you love your dad? Oh, yes. I mean, I'm quite like him, but it turned out two different sides. Is he just more conservative than your mother? Well, he never had a chance. He is a child from the. So he had to reassure the situation and to build up something out of nothing.
Now you're here in New York city. What are your general feelings about this place? Do you love this place? Oh, I, yes. What can you find here that you can't find in Germany? Uh, I like the cliche of, uh, has been Metro. Who is very important and who is very big and through the simple fact of the height of the buildings, um, put into knees every other capital, somehow it's a bit over, I think nowadays, but still it's a bit over New York itself.
It's heyday is, is over. Do you think? I think so. Yes. What about America is America's heyday over? Certainly. Yes. If you could be at a podium and everyone in the world could be stretched out in front of you listening to your words, what would you say? Close your eyes and jump. Why should we jump?
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