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The real life Johnny is dead, by the way—though Gray said that he “loved” his friend, they fell out of touch following a similar attempt at theft (though it was of Star Trek blueprints from Bloomingdales, decidedly less valuable than a computer). In the promo tour for Armageddon Time, Gray has come off as somewhat glib regarding his childhood friend. He said to Deadline:
I don’t know the exact year [of his death] because I only learned about it in the early ’90s, several years afterwards. He was killed in some drug deal in Jamaica, Queens. I don’t know the details, it would take a bunch of forensics to unearth it, but it can be found if I had the motivation.
What Gray says in his art is more sensitive and delicate, an indication of how useful medium can be to one’s message. Incidentally, during this press cycle at least, Gray has also exhibited the habit of calling himself an artist while apologizing for it. To Indiewire: “I think the job of the artist—if I can use that word—is to find what’s wrong with the world through what’s most vulnerable about us, and then reveal that to you.” To the Los Angeles Times: “What is it that’s important to you, if I can use this word, as an artist?” To Variety: “To me it’s the responsibility of the artist—if I can use that big, fancy word—to remove the wall that is naturally constructed between artist and the work, actor and character, director and actor, director and script, to try and be as honest as I can about myself and get more directly at what my definition of good art is.”
Ultimately, Armageddon Time is riveting because it is, as these quotes suggest, messy and resistant to the kind of Hollywood ending that might make this material easier to swallow. Paul learns that life is not fair, though breaking with the convention of how such lessons are generally taught in art, he learns that he’s the beneficiary of that unfairness. As his father tells him: “Sometimes some people get a raw deal, and I hate that. It’s the worst thing in the world, but you have to survive. So all you can do now is you make the most of your break and do not look back.” The movie lets that sink in. Some viewers will see it as a revelation; others who are all too familiar with witnessing disparity from the other side of the tracks will just find it redundant.