Patronising and shallow
Pretty much sums up this farce. Who agrees?
shareIm just started seeing the movie but when he rejected the food in the mission and the fast food the woman bought for him just to spend all the money he had to go and buy food in a restaurant was like.. what the hell.. Putting a pampered celebrity playing a homeless seems to be a stupid idea.
Maybe it will get better..
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To be blunt, the exact scene you are referencing in the movie is highlighted to prove a point. Pras shows himself being naive at first because he actually was naive (just like a lot of us would be). He's not trying to hide the fact that he comes from a completely different world.
But then things change for him. Watch the movie as it goes on and I think you'll see what I'm talking about.
Ive seen the whole film now and I agree that it got better, but I still think that they made some things too easy on Pras. And there was this gap from 120 hrs on the street to 216 hrs when he left that really only had clips from like 1 day that made me kinda think where he was the rest of the time and if he really did spend the 9 days on the streets or only enough for the footage. But after all I think it was a decent film and a film worth seeing.
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That's cool that you ended up enjoying it. Sometimes people can take a cynical stance toward the premise of projects like these, but in the end socially conscious docs are always worthwhile. With Skid Row, you see a man kind of fall apart after only a few days down there while also learning about a tragic sub culture most of us ignore on a daily basis.
And the gap is actually only between 170 hours and 216 hours, not 120. Regardless, I promise you that Pras absolutely spent nine days down there.
To be blunt, the exact scene you are referencing in the movie is highlighted to prove a point. Pras shows himself being naive at first because he actually was naive (just like a lot of us would be). He's not trying to hide the fact that he comes from a completely different world.
But then things change for him. Watch the movie as it goes on and I think you'll see what I'm talking about.
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Exactly. You see that at the end when he's complaining about $1.50 for a chocolate bar. I too was a little shocked at the beginning when he used his $15 to eat at the Standard hotel (a very high-end hotel where $15 doesn't get you much), but then I realized that he did that to show his lifestyle beforehand. It really made an impact on me when you see him come to the realization of what people are actually going through on the streets.
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