Manhattan Adult Entertainment: A day in a balanced life

Far below him, Manhattan rushes and roars. For most people, it’s “another day, another dolor” till the sight in the sky transfixes – and in some cases transforms – them as they tread the tightropes of their own existences. Petit’s walk becomes a focus and a rather laboured metaphor for several frayed lives. There’s the drug addict trying to keep her rehabilitation aloft. The mother of a Vietnam casualty resents what she sees as an insult to human precariousness.
An Irish priest working with junkies and prostitutes in the housing projects treats it as a revelation of blessing and beauty. Against the background of a US where Nixon is being impeached, an oil crisis looms, New York City is bankrupt and the Bronx is a war zone, these onlookers connect in all sorts of ways. One takes part in another’s death; one grieves alongside another; one sentences a couple to prison.

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