The Homeless People – How is it to be Living on the Streets?
(20 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
This award winning documentary about homeless people is frank, funny, and fascinating. These three words describe these unrehearsed conversations with people on the street. Filmed in the Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and South Bay areas, “The Homeless” is a non-judgemental look at the lives of these people as told by themselves. Are homeless people forced into this condition by the circumstances of their lives? Or are they simply petty bums, theifs, and vagrants? You decide. This docu won “Best Bicycle Production” at the 2001 Torrance Public Access Foundation Awards. Build your own opinion about homeless people living on the street by yoursefl now!
The Homeless
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danny
This was interesting albeit a little slanted. It’s clear they went around looking for people who looked or acted like a stereotypical homeless person and then proceed to ask them loaded questions. I felt that this documentary could only serve to reinforce negative stereotypes of the homeless.
The untold story is of the people who don’t look or act homeless but are. There are many homeless people who are well kept, and many who even work full or part time.
March 4th, 2010 at 6:47 pmhayley
This was not a good example of homeless life at all. They failed to find people who actually enjoy being homeless and it is their lifestyle choice. There were no homeless teenagers in it which actually are a larger percentage of the population. It did not show that there is actually some innocence in being homeless. Just all the hardships and downsides, when in reality a lot of people choose it rather than being forced upon it. Next time you should interview a larger range of people rather than all being middle aged men.
April 5th, 2010 at 1:32 pmurmom
Looks like every homeless person I ever met. Well done.
April 7th, 2010 at 8:57 pmkivenc
in new york most people are not homeless. this can’t be said in other developing countries. in new york most of the homeless are falls under 4 category.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:30 am(1) mentally ill. (2) drug addicts (3) jobless families (4) “summer campers” -middle class teens runaways who live on the street for a few month then go home when they have to go back to school.
there is a research study warn that if a person who live on the street for more then 2 years and that person does not hold down a regular part time job with in those 2 years its is most likely he can never work in a normal work environment again. It is very difficult rejoin society when you choose to live on the fringe for that long.