SYNOPSICS
Streets of Plenty (2010) is a English movie. Alex Kleider,Corey Ogilvie has directed this movie. Misha Kleider,Gregor Robertson,Gabor Maté,Thomas Kerr are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2010. Streets of Plenty (2010) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
With the 2010 Olympics approaching, will the world get to know Vancouver's darkest secret? 'Streets of Plenty' chronicles one man's perilous journey to live in Vancouver's downtown east side ghetto. The rules of this twisted social experiment? Starting with only a pair of underwear, he must survive the harsh winter streets for 31 days. He has no money, no friends, no family, and most importantly, no home. He must navigate the institutions, policies and services alongside the thousands of people that call Vancouver's streets home.
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Very well done
I'm giving this a 10 because of the sheer courage involved in the making of this documentary. I'm from Vancouver and have lived here most of my life, and I'm from an upper-middle class family, like the guy in the movie. Like him, I see homeless people on the streets every single day and I feel frustrated and impotent about the problem. The black-and-white contrast between Vancouver's so-called "best city in the world" status with the Downtown Eastside is appalling, to say the least. What this documentary has done for me is given me a safe but realistic fly-on-the-wall look at the epidemic on my streets. Some may criticize this man as being a spoiled rich white kid who could have gone home anytime he wanted to, but you can't criticize him for what he has done - bringing attention to Vancouver's biggest problem. There are three kinds of people in this world. The people who look at something and think: "Man, I would love to do that", but don't do a thing. The people who look at something and criticize it, but don't do anything or offer anything better. And then, the people who go out and DO it. This guy went out and did it. I'm the guy who would "love" to do it, but I don't have the courage to do it. So, this documentary and the people behind it have my respect. It's a powerful documentary and it's striking in its bare-bones approach to a decades-old problem that just seems to be getting worse every day even when the Olympic Games came around.
horribly narcissistic and simply talentless in all respects.
Created an account just to vent for the last 10 wasted minutes of my life. I watched two parts of this intensely self obsessed manchild's 'documentary' on youtube and all I can say is I'm disgusted by his lack of any understanding whatsoever of the situation in Vancouver. His acting shows the worldview of a 9-year old child, and while the viewer is exposed to some of the shelters and 'behind the scenes' footage of life as a homeless person in the DTES, it all seems done only to support this dude's overblown ego. Unfortunately this piece of garbage remains at the top of google searches for 'Vancouver Homeless Documentary' (somehow), and anyone wanting to learn about the issue will be unpleasantly surprised when they see this. Would love it if he could attempt to right his wrongs by removing this offensive material from Youtube, IMDb, and all physical copies of the film in his parents' westside basement.
Disgusting view of mental health and homelessness
Don't support this film. It's saddening to see someone who just does not get it' try to act as though living with mental illness, and homelessness and poverty, could be easy. Zero empathy, or understanding from this film. It's truly sad.
at first, its a conservatives view legitimized, then some of the real world is shown
the first part deliberately shows the cynical side of the debate. then at about the end of his first week . reality hits him in the balls. this is the part when most of the conservatives will tune out. since it tells everyone what it IS like this is. maybe the best one out there accept. he Really should have NOT injected at all. and the 4 basic types of homeless . (insane, drugged, lazy, normal). are not described explicitly. By the way . i am a mostly-homeless computer tech' in Portland Oregon. i KNOW this existence and. i am not insulted by this project . dear reader . please ignore the useless punctuation in the review ,, i am trying to get IMDb to take the damn thing! dear IMDb . a 10 line requirement forced on a person who NEEDS to write small efficient code is an insult. why is a brief description punished. this is stupid!
A Look At Life In Vancouver's Downtown East Side
Misha Kleider decided to make a documentary about the plight of Vancouver's homeless. He sets it in the context of Vancouver having been awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics and repeatedly being named one of the best cities in the world to live in. And his goal is to expose the other side of Vancouver - the 10 square block nightmare of the Downtown East Side, where homelessness, violence, drug addiction and prostitution are common. There's some value in pointing out the distinction between the two sides of Vancouver. I'm more familiar with Toronto - living only about an hour from that city - but the cities are in many ways similar. There's a lot of affluence, and there's a lot of poverty. Basically, to live in either you have to be either wealthy or poor, because the middle class is being squeezed out by the lack of affordable decent housing. But I have to confess that I also had a knee jerk negative reaction going into this. Kleider seems to be a relatively affluent white kid who thinks he'll learn about homelessness on Vancouver's Downtown East Side by pretending to be homeless on Vancouver's Downtown East Side. Not really the same thing - since Kleider could choose to call it quits anytime he wanted. And in spending his month on the streets he uses resources that could have actually been used by the real homeless. And I have to confess that I found his ultimate learning from his experience to be underwhelming to say the least - there's a strong connection between homelessness and drug addiction. I probably could have guessed that. I was concerned by the beginning of the film - for a while it looked like it was going to be a "slam the poor" sort of film, blaming them for their own situation and suggesting (as many do) that they actually have life pretty easy. Thankfully, that seems to have been a bit of a set-up, because the tone changes dramatically once Kleider has been on the streets for a few days and really starts to see the situation closer up. He did help shed light on what to many people is a mystery - why do some homeless people choose to stay on the streets even when there are shelter beds available? Turns out Kleider learned that in a lot of ways (especially health-wise) the streets are actually safer than the shelters. Point taken. And there really is no simple answer to the problem of homelessness - the point made by an interview he had with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who took office with a promise to end homelessness and then - like so many politicians who make grandiose promises - realized that he wasn't going to pull that off. Kleider also made some questionable and even disturbing choices in the course of filming. I realize he wanted to experience the plight of people living in the Downtown East Side - but actually trying crack and heroin was too extreme for my liking - and, frankly, his brother (who was doing the filming) should have walked at that point and refused to be a participant in Misha's stupidity. In doing the experimentation with heroin, mind you, he did give us a look into what's it's like in a supervised injection site. It's a controversial idea, and I can see both the pros and the cons of the concept - and what I saw here really didn't sway me to either side. This isn't a total waste. It does point out the problem of life on the streets - and it's likely similar in all large cities, and not just Vancouver. But my gut reaction to this was simply not positive. (4/10)