Matt Mahurin, music video guy, is cinematographer, editor and director of this documentary. “I Like Killing Flies” is a quick portrait of Kenny Shopsin, who is the owner of the Greenwich Village eatery bearing his name. Mahurin, shot this about 80-minute film on video and it looks that way. He must have spent $10 to do the whole thing.

He begins the story in 2002 when Shopsin is basically being railroaded out of the digs he has been at for 32 years by his landlord. The film is at once engaging and convincing.

Shopsin is a diner kitchen philosopher. Be ready for some saucy language because almost every other word is the f-word. Shopsin is unkempt, eccentric and bellicose. He’s also good with a fly swatter. I wasn’t sure whether to like him or not but I stuck around to hear him out.

Shopsin’s did relocate just a couple blocks away and the camera follows him before, during and after the move. I wondered if he could make it through the move and maintain the vast menu. He continued to impress.

I liked this film. I wanted a little more substance from Shopsin and I felt at times Mahurin did not get Shopsin to reach far enough. The main theme is change and how some of us handle it whether it is forced on us or we choose it. It’s how we go on living to accommodate the changes. It’s a good look at worldly wisdom from a rather rough man. Shopsin accepts change and the restaurant now has a web site. Shopsin doesn’t scare me and if you are headed toward NYC, check out Shopsin’s; I know I would.