I have a purpose. You don't.

Marty Supreme — 2.5/5

For about an hour, I was into it, I think maybe because I just really like ping pong, but at just over the hour mark, as Marty does yet another terrible thing that he must get out of, it occurs to me — I think they want me to think this is a comedy? "Look at this trial of errors that this confident/ce man operating on pure self-belief gets in and out of, what a silly compelling life." It is at this point that I realize that Marty Supreme is a fucking dick, and I'm following an asshole. I think in this way, Josh Safdie is the heir apparent to Martin Scorsese, making movies about people which can be viewed by some as a warning, except they make their lives seem so appealing. "Being a bad man's bad, except for all that fun we had." And so, to cut to the end, I think that final scene is basically a Rorschach test for what you think of Marty. Do you like him, find him a fun funny character? Then that new child is salvation, a path towards forgiveness and turning your life around, around it. Do you aspire to be him (you fucking hustle-bro)? Then those tears are for the renewed motivation to keep on hustling, to hustle even harder because now you're not just doing it for yourself, you're doing it for an other. Do you dislike Marty? Then that baby is an excuse, and whatever path you choose next, you get to credit / blame that child for sending you on that path. Leave that life? "I have a baby at home." Continue on? "I'm a father, a father has to provide." I don't like Marty, so I think that baby is just a new way out of a jam. If you can't win, then find a way to escape cleanly.