Tim "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses. He talks fast, is in love with the city, and dispenses historical facts, architectural analysis, and philosophical musings in equal measures. He's reflective and funny about cruising: he loves it, got in it to meet women, and he'd quit work if he could. His personal life is disclosed in small doses: he takes home $200 a week for 20 hours work, home is his suitcase and wherever he can flop, he's been arrested for going out on the roof tops of skyscrapers to see his city; he stands between the towers of the World Trade Center, spins until he's dizzy, then looks up. American artist Bennett Miller created Timothy Levitch aka Speed- The Cruise. This documentary shares an experience a day in the life of New York city tour guide Speed. The film can be described as entertaining, educational on occasions overseen reality.
I am here to welcome you to Speedisms.com – my name is Speed Levitch. I’m a tour guide and a playwright, and so, my martial art — reading into the subtext of reality with a dramatalurgical eye — intermixes with my vocation, which is promoting vacation and vacation-consciousness to people attempting to be on vacation, people who are commonly known as tourists. And, every tour I give begins with the assumption that we are all tourists, as we are all temporarily visiting the planet. However, I don’t mean tourists, the kind who come to a place to take away from that place’s identity and beauty, no, I’m talking about tourists, pilgrims, flaneurs…the kind of tourist who comes to a place to contribute to that place’s identity and beauty. This is addressed to that type of tourist who visits a significant landmark and, therefore, makes that significant landmark more significant. This goes out to the vivacious abrupt, the earthbound-astronauts, to the fanatics of curiousity. It is to the savorers, that this blog is dedicated!
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| Timothy "Speed" Levitch in a scene from The Cruise |
Speed Levitch: The Cruise
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