The first thing that jumped out to me from this documentary, was how it was shot in all black and white. It adds this effect to where you can't look through the lines. It almost seems as if they want to throw these homeless people, where they live, and how they live, right at the viewer.
The characters and people that were in this documentary were very diverse in the sense of homelessness. A few of them had direct problems with Cocaine and other hard drugs. One of the characters in the video said that almost 80% of the people down there are addicted to cocaine and other hard drugs, and maybe even more!
It wasn't that the different people were idiots, some of them could actually talk, be literate, and be able to form sentences without going on and on. One of the people (You could easily tell by how much he cooked) loved to cook. He was always looking for food, for ways of seasoning, and using tricks he had learned.
The director had shot a lot of footage of a train going by really fast and loudly, as well as a lot of video of rats and mice running across the ground. I feel like the train was to signify that they were extremely close to civilization, and people. Almost as if they were slowly becoming closer and closer to regular (home-owning) people. The rats made the place seem even more dirty and grungier. It made it seem as if there was grime, and food everywhere; that it was completely unsanitary and no one should live there.
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