Aronofsky was 22 years old when he directed his first film, a short called Fortune Cookie, from 1991. The precociousness of the New Yorker does not differ from other "out-of-the-box" colleagues of his generation, such as PT Anderson and Chris Nolan, who played at dictating the rules even at a young age. As usual in the debut films, we do not identify much of the artist when we compare him with his mature phase.
We found some kinship with his later works, in the obsessions of his characters, a characteristic that permeates the director's cinema. The obsession of Harold Broadneck, the main character starred by the hardworking Dean Cleverdon, is the need to succeed and stop being a failed salesman.
His luck changed in an Asian restaurant, when he met the "fortune cookies". His walk, which was once capsized, became upright and his shoes began to shine. The second turning point takes place in an unusual discussion in a bathroom while Dean and a rival, more than a caricature, about his good sales phase.
Anyway, just a film by a novice, who would become one of the best directors of his generation and would start to shine, like the shoes mentioned above.
