Midnight Cowboy

Once again, I created a picture in my head about a movie that was different from what the movie actually is. However, that doesn't change the fact that it is an excellent film, which is brilliantly acted. Both Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman deliver great performances in a story that is at times unnecessarily psychedelic, but overall easily understandable and impactful. (07/01/2015)

The peak of depression, directorial creativity and acting mastery, while at the same tame, it irradiates something beautiful and hopeful in an almost poetical way (perhaps thanks to the nice music as an echo of the easygoing sixties). Probably, the most convincing breakdown of the American urban dream and very likely Dustin Hoffman’s best performance, even better than the more psychologically pigeon-holed Rain Main. 90% (04/20/2020)

Naivety and honesty hurt. The viewer and Joe. And sometimes it hurts to leave a familiar place and go somewhere where everything is supposed to be better, and in the end, nothing is better. In the wrong places, honesty and trust will simply destroy you. But this whole interpretation of mine would only be a simplified message of the story if Hoffman's Rico did not appear in it. With him, a biting, evoking absolute melancholy came to the cowboy campaign. Awakening of the former generation, a warning for the present. (11/30/2007)

An increasingly interesting in today’s terms (and, from my point of view, far dreamier) look at the New York streets of the late 60s and early 70s as a melting pot of ethnicities, subcultures, and social classes. It's the realistically unembellished depiction of the lower castes of a vibrant big city that is the most interesting element of the film. Then Jon Voight himself had such a terrifying effect on me that I watched most of it with bulging eyes and my comforter pulled up under my nose. I’ve seen puppets that looked more human than he did. (06/20/2022)

The acclaimed Oscar-winning masterpiece about the power of friendship and the unfulfilled dream of a better life. If I had to pick a single film that best depicts the atmosphere of American society in the late 1960s, its depression, the subconscious trauma of the Vietnam War, religious frenzy, social divisions, the rise of the hippies and the psychedelic music era, I'd pick this one. In no other film has New York been such a filthy sewer, where social outcasts dream of a sunny Florida. And Dustin Hoffman should have won an Oscar for his brilliantly acted (and written) role. (03/02/2010)