![]() Because Ahmad can’t afford a large enough place, his 6-year-old son (Hassan Razvi) is living with his in-laws. We learn that his wife died a year earlier (there is a brief, awkward flashback to happier days) but not how she died. The movie sparingly dishes out the details of Ahmad’s life, leaving many questions unanswered. ![]() ![]() Bahrani’s small, bleak film no less gripping to know that it was, in fact, partly inspired by “The Myth of Sisyphus,” Albert Camus’s treatise on the absurdity of existence. In the scenes filmed in daylight, it is often raining. Much of the movie takes place before sunrise during the winter months, and images of the illuminated spire of the Chrysler Building spearing the night sky and of tree branches crusted with tiny white lights evoke the city’s crushing indifference. Lugging his portable propane tank, he stocks his stainless-steel cart, then pushes it through traffic to his station on a corner of Avenue of the Americas. In the wee small hours of each morning, he commutes by subway from his shabby one-room apartment in Brooklyn to Midtown Manhattan, where he sells coffee, doughnuts and bagels on the street. Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi), the Pakistani immigrant who is the protagonist of Ramin Bahrani’s “Man Push Cart,” goes through a Sisyphean daily grind.
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