
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
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This isn’t Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, but it was his first available on streaming. I’ll try to watch his actual first film tonight or tomorrow. Something about movies from the 70s: they’re either one of the best movies ever made or one of the slowest, most drawn-out movies of all time. Now, this isn’t the worst movie ever made, but it is far from a masterpiece. It is incredibly slow at the start but picks up a little as it goes on. Scorsese’s penchant for crime and gangster films is still evident here, and that aspect of the film is probably the best part. There’s a well-shot but short car chase and other brief, exciting moments followed by long, long moments of nothingness. But despite all that, the end came together and really worked for me. This is definitely no must-watch, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. At least it’s woke?