There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all - every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. “In the age of sponsored content, book deals, and reality TV, it seems almost unfathomable that someone would shoulder a massive, gimmicky undertaking for…nothing. And yet that’s the claim from Matt Green, who’s spent over five years walking over 8,000 miles in order to walk every single block in New York City — from Harlem to Red Hook, Staten Island to the Upper East Side.
“Like Green himself, the documentary, The World Before Your Feet, (produced by Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg) meanders without a methodically organized path. It jumps from neighborhood to neighborhood, touching on Green’s childhood, his previous jaunt walking across the country from New York to Oregon, and his ex-girlfriends.
“At the end of the documentary, Green hits 8,000 miles, the estimate he had been using for the completion of his project. There is no fanfare or ticker tape, just Green turning back to camera and saying that somewhere on that previous block, he hit the number he had been aiming for.” - Entertainment Weekly
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