Midnight Cowboy

Release Year: 1969

Director: John Schlesinger

Review: Sometimes plans don't work out the way you expect them to. Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a Texan cowboy who thinks he can make it big in the city New York City as a male prostitute, but quickly learns how hard it actually is. 

For as many people as there are in the city, it can be a lonely place.  The only person that Joe connects with is an equally poor and lonely Ratso (Dustin Hoffman), a petty con man.  What is powerful is the desperation of trying to survive, and the depths a person will sink to get by in the dystopian tinted city.  The friendship that develops between the two is the true heart of the film.  It might be a friendship of circumstance, but a true bond is formed.  It shows that even if you have nothing, as long as you have one good friend its something.  I had problems with the, at times, chaotic story telling, with the backstory of Joe not effectively being integrated into the story.  but as a whole 'Midnight Cowboy' delivers as an emotional, if not at times uncomfortable, experience.
Rating: 3.5/5