“As a black person watching this film,” Dyson said in an interview, “what struck me was that finally a white auteur, a white director, a white thinker on film is grappling organically with difference, with hardship, with trying to come to grips with who’s been left out and who’s marginal and seeing that also attached to the issue of race.” Alec Baldwin is at his scoundrelly best (or is it worst?) as New York City planner Moses Randolph, who could care less about the people being pushed out by urban renewal and gentrification. Norton’s character, Lionel Essrog, is determined to solve the murder of his mentor and boss, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis), who ran a car service that doubles as a detective agency in Brooklyn. “Motherless Brooklyn” essentially has two trains running and meeting at unusual junctions.
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