Everyday homeless life in Los Angeles, California.Everyday homeless life in Los Angeles, California.Everyday homeless life in Los Angeles, California.
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A Very Real Look at a growing problem done well by Taylor and Sergei
We see them on the streets and tend to look down on their presence, wishing they would go away. There are more and more homeless in America every year to the rocky economic climate, the job market getting smaller and smaller and aid going to people overseas. One such place that always seems to outnumber most of the cities in America is Los Angeles. More people are losing their jobs and left in survival mode due to the revolving job market, more interest in foreign workers and the lack of facilities to help the intellectually disabled. These are the forgotten people that directors Taylor Golonka and Sergei Zelinsky are trying to shed light on when everyone has turned their back on them.
Michael Rinearson talks intimately with several people on the street; all with different backgrounds, and genders. Some are still fully conscious of the pain they endure everyday and choose not to partake in drugs to keep their spirits up. Others grow lucid with whatever they can just to ignore the pain. We would think it's a pitiful existence that one would hit rock bottom and they can pick themselves up. Many have lost the desire to do so because of the constant treatment by society as being subhuman. Taylor and Sergei bring all this out in their cinematic piece with wonderful shots of the city scape and the people around, time lapse photography and the music is beautifully haunting. One of the subjects even warns that this can be you someday and tells his cautionary tale of how life was good and then a change made everything fall apart.
I encourage people to watch this and understand these aren't just people who made wrong decisions in life. These are very real situations that happen everyday and when survival instinct kicks in, you do what you can to stay alive. Watching this film can open your eyes and at the very least, change your view of the homeless.
Michael Rinearson talks intimately with several people on the street; all with different backgrounds, and genders. Some are still fully conscious of the pain they endure everyday and choose not to partake in drugs to keep their spirits up. Others grow lucid with whatever they can just to ignore the pain. We would think it's a pitiful existence that one would hit rock bottom and they can pick themselves up. Many have lost the desire to do so because of the constant treatment by society as being subhuman. Taylor and Sergei bring all this out in their cinematic piece with wonderful shots of the city scape and the people around, time lapse photography and the music is beautifully haunting. One of the subjects even warns that this can be you someday and tells his cautionary tale of how life was good and then a change made everything fall apart.
I encourage people to watch this and understand these aren't just people who made wrong decisions in life. These are very real situations that happen everyday and when survival instinct kicks in, you do what you can to stay alive. Watching this film can open your eyes and at the very least, change your view of the homeless.
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- angiequidim
- Jan 21, 2014
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