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Since the rise of the Industrial Age, the Western World has witnessed a clash between those of the middle class known to the French as the Bohemian and the Bourgeois. In the past 15 years, NYC experiences such a clash: updated to terms like hipster and townies. Hipsters, of this Brooklyn age, represent a kind of standard pioneered by the Bohemians of the 18th century Paris. Zeke speaks to this standard. At first glance, it would appear this vintage clothed, Howel reading, twenty-something fully encompasses the mindless, coke-induced, trust fund baby known to many New Yorkers and popularized world-wide by an image articulated through such representations as ‘the Hipster Olympics’ on Youtube.com. Yet, on second glance, viewers come to recognize a sincere gentle-man searching for meaning in a busy, often complex and labyrinthine world.
Zeke represents the celebrated creativity, novelty, anti-materialism and vivid experience embodied by la vie boheme . His attachment to Ginsberg’s Howl attests to his original hipster quality. Aesthetic and mise en scene mirrors the confronted world described by Zeke, while a generally unthreaded narrative resembles the whimsical, creative nature of the subject matter. In combination, dialogue, setting, aesthetic and mise en scene work to undo such stereotypes of hipsters, and instead attempt to humanize those that carry forth the ideals of this particular class.
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