Here we are dealing with the real human nature, a blind society, the excluded of the system for endless reasons, that includes so many variables whose for some mishaps felt into street as homeless, underscoring in bold letters that the picture wasn't a big production of major proportions, just a small picture that dared to expose how the mankind tries out sweep underneath the carpet to hidden the garbage.
Anchored in two strong actors as Matt Dillon and Danny Glover which gave to the picture the needful greatness to catch the audience, Matthew (Matt Dillon) a young guy who suffer of the ill schizophrenia, just out of sanatorium without a proper support of his mother, stayed adrift, then he meets with Jerry (Danny Glover) a veteran soldier at Homeless's shelter Fort Washington in New York, soon realizes that Matthew needs a help to carry on alive due his hard illness, Jerry a former mid class worker who went bankrupt due his old partner spent all money on horse races ends up in the gutter and also lost your wife and children.
Jerry proposes to Matthew a partnership in a business to sell vegetables at street soon they could rent a small cheap apartment, so they must work so hard as car's windscreen wiper at traffic street to gathering some enough money ta take ahead this smaller enterprise, it's what they dream glimpse for the near future, however the real life is cruel, many troubles crossing their footsteps, black shadows is coming.
The Director Tim Hunter with the writer Lyle Kessler sets out a humanist point of view for those that don't see these invisibles people whose are part of the urban landscape, shedding light in this constant issue that we can't ignore, this picture is pure poetry for the people's lowly heart, as a read somewhere " If this don't change your feelings, nothing will", also the official DVD available in Brazil sadly have a poor image, needing a proper restauration for next release, I'm praying for due the greatness this movie means for me, an authentic and forgotten masterpiece!!
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 1995 / Source: TV-DVD / How many: 3 / Rating: 10.
Anchored in two strong actors as Matt Dillon and Danny Glover which gave to the picture the needful greatness to catch the audience, Matthew (Matt Dillon) a young guy who suffer of the ill schizophrenia, just out of sanatorium without a proper support of his mother, stayed adrift, then he meets with Jerry (Danny Glover) a veteran soldier at Homeless's shelter Fort Washington in New York, soon realizes that Matthew needs a help to carry on alive due his hard illness, Jerry a former mid class worker who went bankrupt due his old partner spent all money on horse races ends up in the gutter and also lost your wife and children.
Jerry proposes to Matthew a partnership in a business to sell vegetables at street soon they could rent a small cheap apartment, so they must work so hard as car's windscreen wiper at traffic street to gathering some enough money ta take ahead this smaller enterprise, it's what they dream glimpse for the near future, however the real life is cruel, many troubles crossing their footsteps, black shadows is coming.
The Director Tim Hunter with the writer Lyle Kessler sets out a humanist point of view for those that don't see these invisibles people whose are part of the urban landscape, shedding light in this constant issue that we can't ignore, this picture is pure poetry for the people's lowly heart, as a read somewhere " If this don't change your feelings, nothing will", also the official DVD available in Brazil sadly have a poor image, needing a proper restauration for next release, I'm praying for due the greatness this movie means for me, an authentic and forgotten masterpiece!!
Thanks for reading.
Resume:
First watch: 1995 / Source: TV-DVD / How many: 3 / Rating: 10.