I Humbly Present The Short Film "New York City Subway System In 8 Seconds"

Bravo! BRAVO! That right there is art. Fucking art. I’ve never seen anything summed up so succinctly (yeah we are using big boy words today) as New York’s underground labyrinth of hell was in this short film. An absolute tour de force in 8 seconds. It was so perfectly New York that I had to give it the old school KFC Barstool NY Blog treatment.

After all those celebrities were finished playing dress up like assholes on the red carpet of the Met Gala last night, they clearly went inside The Met and stared at this film play over and over inside of a giant frame. I thought the cast of characters from the infamous Joe & Pat’s pizza review were out of this world. But they ain’t got shit on the blend of chaos and beauty of The Subway Five.

You have the Meestah Meestah lady prepping her eyelashes over a garbage can for what I imagine was a hot date. You have the dichotomy of love and heartbreak interpreted in dance form with Awesome Ravens Shirt Guy and Black Dress Lady. You have the heartbeat of the video as well as the symbolism for New York capitalism in the subway performer. And then you have the New Yorker with absolutely top notch posture trying to avoid eye contact and get the fuck away from that potentially explosive situation as fast as humanly possible without moving his head an inch. All that was missing were the smells and a muffled announcement that nobody could understand in that dungeon of sadness. Nonetheless, it was the perfect artistic interpretation of the New York City Subway System and whoever recorded this Instagram should submit it to Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and all those other foo foo film festivals then watch the trophies pile up.

h/t TT