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...year veteran of public performance, McNamara has come to know well the trials and demands facing a subway musician in greater Boston. But this season, he and hundreds of others who play under the city for a living came close to facing strong limitations to their professions...
...Jerry McNamara sits on a ledge set into the platform wall, an accordion resting on his lap and a gray tweed hat hiding his downward-cast eyes from the pedestrian traffic. His fingers fly over the keys of his instrument as he embellishes a medley of holiday carols, tapping his foot beside a case scattered with coins and bills...
...McNamara does admit that he made mistakes, but he never fully takes responsibility for his misdeeds. It is as if he believes that the domino theory applies to him—that a single avowal of guilt will collapse his entire line of defense...
...film’s final lesson is that human nature cannot be changed. Morris, who said that the lessons gleaned from his interviews with McNamara were far more optimistic than his own views, preferred to take the lessons a step further. “I have a much simpler view,” he explained. “My view is we’re fucked...
Morris compared the events of the film to America’s present-day engagement in Iraq: “We [McNamara and Morris] could be talking about things that happened four, five, six days ago…The film became increasingly relevant to what is going on today...