This movie has a rating of only 6.4 while much worse movies get 7.0 or higher. Incredible. Is the audience that brainless, or do dirty producers hire Indian/Bangladesh companies to pump up their ratings, and decrease ratings of their competitors?
This movie is the real thing. Not some propaganda crap. It shows all the "glory" of war and veterans, life on the streets, crime, and the corruption of the government. It shows unpleasant stuff, things hidden from the media, so that ordinary people wouldn't see the reality.
For those who expect big explosions and car-races, this is not a movie for you. This one is much slower. But it grabs you. Because it's so real.
Plot summary
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
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November 25, 2016 at 07:44 PM
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Outstanding movie, realistic, no-bullcrap
"I don't want to have a big sad part of my life anymore."
Fans of Thomas Haden Church will discover a different side to his acting ability in this film in which he portrays a homeless person straddling the fence between rationality and mental illness. It's an effective portrayal that tugs at the emotions throughout the story, as well as arouse your anger with a couple of upper crust elitist kids who get their kicks out of setting up and recording fights between derelicts on the street. The down and out street vibe appears to be handled fairly realistically, as Willie patrols local alleys and garbage dumpsters for food, while hookers ply their trade without interference. Beyond his meager existence, Willie's primary goal is to have and be a friend to someone, perhaps even have someone to love. While Willie does take up the preppy challenge to fight other unfortunates, his heart isn't really in it, at one point contemplating suicidal thoughts when he visits his father's gravesite and sadly remarks "Goodbye Daddy, I'll see you soon". However the movie does require the viewer to make a giant leap of faith at the finale because I don't think the execution of the story quite successfully tied the title character to the little girl burn victim. Presumably she was the writer of the diary, who finds herself in Willie's circle by time and circumstance, and brought by a mentor to see him back on the street. That seemed to run contrary to her upbringing by an abusive uncle, requiring a stretch of the imagination to come full circle. A little bit of a rewrite could have made the connection more effectively.
Life and exploitation of the homeless
This small independent production shot on some of the meanest streets of Los
Angeles is definitely worth a look. Thomas Haden Church produced and starred
in this film about life as a homeless person and some people who look to exploit
them.
Church plays a homeless man without hope or any kind of drive to rise above the
place fate has put him. He's ripe for a rich punk like Rhys Whitfield who pays
$50.00 to a pair of homeless to fight it out like gladiators in ancient Rome. Church starts building a reputation in underground circles. He's the Cardboard Boxer.
Church does a fine job as a man just looking for a bit of self worth. Not unlike
Spartacus and in the end things happen in a Spartacus like way. And Whitfield
is truly a punk's punk.
This one is a real sleeper, don't miss it.