Midnight Cowboy

"Midnight Cowboy", #36/42, 1969
So I watched this movie back in November, but apparently, I never wrote about it. Whoops.

And, I wrote those lines back in July and never finished the post. Which means it's been over a year since I watched this movie, and I'm about a dozen movies behind blogging in general. So, major whoops on that. Apologies to the one person who reads this blog.

This movie has some really great acting by the young Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
The opening scene is this montage between a whole bunch of southern diner workers shout "Where is that Joe Buck?" and Joe Buck, played by Voight, getting all gussied up as a cowboy. He then goes into the diner, announces he's quitting the dinner and moving to New York. And he does.
Joe Buck goes to New York with this great plan that he could be this suave southern cowboy and easily gain money by prostitution. He finds out that it's not quite the easy, carefree, rich lifestyle he'd planned on. But, he meets Ratso, played by Hoffman, who is used a street-smart thief who is used to the tough life of being beyond broke in New York. And they become friends.
And that's really the heart of the story. The odd deep friendship these two have and how they take great efforts to provide for each other. Ultimately caring more about the welfare of the other person over their own.
The content of the movie (prostitution, stealing, etc.) but, it was very sweet to see their unique and loving friendship. I guess I can't be too certain, since it has been a year since I've seen it, but I think I'd watch it again.