The Get Down
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In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.
In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.
One wants to like it because it’s Luhrmann, and because of its subject matter: The Get Down chronicles the rise of hip-hop in the burning Bronx of the mid-1970s. That’s fascinating, fertile territory to explore, even if it doesn’t exactly seem a match for Luhrmann’s penchant for tattered glam and opulence. Guirgis, who’s written caustic, crackling New York City plays like Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and the Pulitzer-winning Between Riverside and Crazy, would seem to be the perfect realist counterbalance to Luhrmann’s flights of fancy.
As the teen protagonists seek greater autonomy that is denied them by those who wield more power, friction develops and they begin to turn on ...
