Fine character study - but not much plot - Welcome to Pine Hill

Keith Miller's 2012 Welcome to Pine Hill is an indie about a street hustler in Brooklyn, in his 20s, who's trying to put the street life behind him - he's a petty drug dealer, apparently - and earn an honest living, working 2 jobs, a bouncer at a Brooklyn bar which has, to his annoyance, become increasingly
yuppified, a hangout for white guys with designer eyeglasses who try to befriend him and ask him about street life - very offensive, obviously - and as a claims adjuster for an insurance co., where his workday involves hearing the sad stories of policyholders who've been in crashes and are hoping to collect. Things go poorly for the guy - played by an actor named Shanon Harper - and the movie ends with (spoiler coming - though honestly the plot is the least important element of this film) him waling off into the woods in the Catskills and vanishing among the trees, disappearance and a suicide and a bit of a movie cliche, easy ending, if you ask me. Miller does a fine job with many of the scenes in this film, shot in documentary style, with little camera movement and a great deal of patience, letting the various scenes unfold slowly and as if in real time - many of the scenes seem to have improvised dialogue. Some the best include the opener - in which Harper tries to scam a neighborhood guy (played by Miller) into giving up his pit bull (Harper claims it was his, had run away, had cost $250, and the guy - "I really love this dog," he says, tearfully - will have to pay up to keep the dog), a scene in which Harper sits silently heating a crappy meal in a toaster oven, worried about his health, a scene when he in near-silence gets bad news from a clinic doctor, and a backyard drinking binge with some of the guys from the neighborhood. Scene by scene, that is, Miller has a fine style, but by the end, the promising tensions of the opening sequences fade rather than build and the movie, laconic in style to the extreme, becomes somewhat less than the sum of its parts - lots of great potential here and Harper is a great study of a character but the materials never quite come together to form a narrative or a story.