Take Out

As good as independent cinema gets
I saw this in New York when it opened in June. My girlfriend dragged me. I wanted to see see another movie instead. But it turned out to be a good move for me to see this because the film is well done and very interesting. The acting seems so real it's almost not even like a "movie" but a glimpse into someone's real life. I dug it - it made me really think about that guy's life. Who knew?

Many parts had me on the edge of my seat. It had me when he had to race against time to raise the money. I love race against time sequences in a movie. I will think twice now when i tip the delivery man.

I'm buying this.

An Indie Gem.
"Take Out" is a brilliant piece of low budget filmmaking. It covers a couple of days in the life a Chinese illegal alien.

Ming Ding is one of those fixtures of the landscape, there but not there, the guy on the bike, head down, weaving in and out of traffic, rain or shine, plastic bags of egg rolls and General Tso's Chicken dangling from the handlebars. He's the guy who hands the bags over to you, listens to you whine about not enough soy sauce or `they forgot the chopsticks', who makes change, takes his tip and never makes eye contact. That's what we see. This is an almost cinema verite look at the parts we don't see.

The world Ming lives in isn't pretty. He and his coworkers are all indentured to the human traffickers who brought them here. Life is work, work is drudgery, pay is lousy. Ming once earned $90 in tips in a single day, his best day. Home is a rented bed in a tenement apartment with 20 or 30 other guys. Still, in a year or two, he'll pay off his...

Great DVD. Great Service! Recommended and reliable.
The DVD arrived on time and it was a brilliant documentary told from the perspective of migrant workers in New York. Eye opening.

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