{"id":9493,"date":"2007-06-16T23:04:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2007-06-16T23:04:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:04:01","slug":"street-thief-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/street-thief-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Thief (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"street-thief\"<\/a>In the tradition of films like \u201cMan Bite Dog,\u201d and \u201cBehind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon,\u201d Malik Bader is a film that constantly has you questioning what\u2019s reality and what\u2019s fantasy. Is this all one big ruse? Are the filmmakers putting us on from minute one? Or is this an actual thief we\u2019re watching? Most of all, does this make the film worth watching if we can never be sure one way or the other? \u201cStreet Thief\u201d is one of the many films in the modern era that\u2019s demonstrated the audience\u2019s ability to become voyeurs. As a mass that constantly feel we have to watch people at their worst and most embarrassing, films like \u201cStreet Thief\u201d will challenge the audience and keep us guessing.<\/p>\n

Normally, I don\u2019t like being conned into watching a movie I\u2019m told is one thing and ends up being another, but \u201cStreet Thief\u201d had me hooked from the start. Following a \u201cprofessional thief\u201d named Kaspor, Bader and crew follow the young man across the city watching him perform jobs, scout locations, interact with other criminals, and occasionally perform good deeds for his next door neighbors who can barely afford to pay for electricity. Through all of this, he ignores the cameras as best as he can, but occasionally tends to bark at them referring to them as nuisances.<\/p>\n

The lingering question will indeed be, if you knew one way or another that \u201cStreet Thief\u201d was or wasn\u2019t a documentary and that Bader put us on, would you still enjoy this movie? But then, that\u2019s the testament of excellence toward \u201cStreet Thief\u201d in which the atmosphere is so utterly genuine, and the personas so damn electric that you\u2019ll always be wondering to yourself if these are all actors, or actual personalities that hover around the crime community. In a world where directors challenge the conventions of documentaries (\u201cBehind the Mask\u201d), and or tell us we\u2019re watching documentaries and are clearly bullshitting us (\u201cUnknown White Male\u201d), it\u2019s quite refreshing for the director to outright challenge our perceptions, and ask us to choose which we prefer to think of \u201cStreet Thief\u201d in the end.<\/p>\n

Fantasy or Reality? Fiction or non-fiction? It\u2019s up to us to decide in the end. \u201cStreet Thief\u201d leaves you theorizing and debating hours after the credits roll, and I\u2019d say fiction or not, Bader has done his job as a storyteller, he\u2019s left us wanting more. Fiction, non-fiction, reality, fantasy, what does it matter? “Street Thief” is a compelling and rather fantastic peak into the life of a thief who is always one step ahead of the guys following him, and Bader is always one step ahead of his audience, like any other story teller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the tradition of films like \u201cMan Bite Dog,\u201d and \u201cBehind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon,\u201d Malik Bader is a film that constantly has you questioning what\u2019s reality and what\u2019s fantasy. Is this all one big ruse? Are the filmmakers putting us on from minute one? Or is this an actual thief we\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[240,302,457,672,885,1087,1130],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-heist","tag-mock-documentary","tag-s","tag-thriller","tag-tv-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}