Bill Cunningham New York(2010)

If I were to name something heartwarming and encouraging in terms of book reading, I would pick Tuesdays With Morrie written by Mitch Albom. But if I were to name it in terms of films, it would undoubtedly be Bill Cunningham New York (2010) directed by Richard Press. 

The story of Bill Cunningham is truly a unique one to tell. Having begun his fashion career at the Carnegie Hall, New York in 1949, Bill came into the field full of passion and preserved his fervency for decades. For years, he lived in daily routine of riding bikes on streets of New York, and constantly seeking for elements of fashion and catching them on camera. When he gets into photographing, food or anything else physical is forgotten. Even money. 

While watching this documentary, I felt more and more respectful to Bill. So careless of the world around him whose goal is only to record fashion itself, as if fashion is the last thing living on earth. Whenever I try to sit down to write my film blogs or homework assignments, I either get hungry or begin wandering my mind somewhere else; I’m easily distracted. The fact that Bill has been the same for half of a century and still liked ripping money checks given to him as paychecks, I really don’t know what to do if not to pay proper respect to such a peculiar and pure man. We can see that Bill’s mind, although inattentive to anything other than fashion, has his own principles. When he worked at Women's Wear Daily, seeing one of his post works was used by his company to make fun of the women models in his photos, Bill was “beyond upset.” He immediately left the job after he experienced that incident as he felt embarrassed for what the models had to go through because of him. Bill’s sense of freedom was the main reason why he deserves full honor. He is really the first person I’ve ever seen that is full of gratitude, modesty and passion. 

Bill, in the end, made me believe the magic of perseverance, kindness and patience. He will perhaps be the only person I think who is unintentional of hurting anybody. And, I hope, that his soul will forever rest in peace with his camera in hand, as he continues to take pictures of art, the fashion that he finds inspiring.

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