The story is about how difficult is to find a place to rent in New York. Three young artists: a trans DJ, Tariq, a middle eastern performance artist and Eddie, a gay film maker share a tiny apartment but they struggle to meet ends. They can barely afford rent. They scrimp and save to survive in the city and come up with the idea of putting the apartment on airbnb. We see a few instances where they make money from the rentee and then with Eddie or Tariq seduce them and steal their money. Soon, their scam is exposed. Meanwhile Eddie is in love with Tariq, who is also being hit on by a fellow actor friend. As expected the rent soon increases and now the trip need to move on from this cozy place.
The film made no sense at all. As a short film, citing story of how young struggling artists manage to survive in a monster city like New York would have been a good one to tell but rarely you see such lazy film making. The trans opera actor was so bad, that I can't begin to write and so were the other two. The lines were completely rehearsed and came off as amateurish. Its a guerrilla style film making, where a good 10-15 total minutes of the film are used in showing a squirrel run from one place to other. I guess, the meta symbolism is that artists in NY are also running from one place to another to make ends meet. Also, in no good conscious can you justify their action of scamming people. I was fine with them renting their apartment, but stealing from them is not something to be proud of or to glorify it. Just stay away from this film. It's not worth anything, except maybe just the good looking Tariq. (2/10)
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