directed by Martin Bell (1984)
I watched this after Robin Bougie shared a youtube link to on Facebook, that unfortunately, no longer works. I found another one, but the links below will no longer take you to the scene I was describing.
I'd heard of it before and had just recently come across again a few months back and thought hmmm...this will make me feel like shit if I watch it, and I passed. I can't hardly stand these docs about throwaway kids. Hits too close to home. I had a cry right as it started and again a couple few times through. Had to stop watching for a bit and eat summat. Eggs and Halal bacon which is crap, so not bacon. Tastes like those Carl Buddig paper thin luncheon meats fried up. I think if you're gonna go that route, screw the halal faux bacon business and go straight for the NDN steak, fried bologna, and don't forget to slash your slice in to the centre so you get a disc done up looks like a pac man pieface. wakawaka
Ok, the thing that gets to me the most is that these kids have nobody looking out for them but each other. The adults, society, have totally failed them. Every scene with their parents is tragic.
The dad wants to do right by his kid, but he's in jail! Oh the irony of don't smoke too much as he lights up.
Nobody should be having to live such a hardscrabble existence, and especially not kids. The system is down. They get no respect, even and especially from the people whose jobs are to help them. Like wtf is up with the social worker guy walking into the girl's apartment and hassling her and her boyfriend while they're naked wrapped in towels? Who does that! Where's the common courtesy to deal with her on a basis of, I'll give you a moment to get dressed before we talk?
Whatever though, because that's fairly trivial, and just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to lack of respect. Besides, it's not just him who's failing the kids. The system failed their parents too, and on to the next generation, and so on, rinse and repeat. When you see people who are living on the street, it's hard to make excuses for that situation existing. We've obviously failed our obligations to each other and our future, and created an underclass who struggle against terrible odds. The system is geared towards criminalising survival behaviour that only exists because the safety net that should be there has failed, and when the kids can't jump over the hurdles, and through the hoops, they think they are the failures, not that deck is hugely stacked against them. We've created a society where way too many don't have even a reasonable expectation of thriving and I don't know that another homeless shelter or non-profit soup kitchen stop gap solution is gonna do much to reverse this situation.
Ugh. My heart hurts.
What happened to them after? (Obvious spoilers)
More about Tiny and clips from Erin, a 2004 followup doc on Tiny.
I watched this after Robin Bougie shared a youtube link to on Facebook, that unfortunately, no longer works. I found another one, but the links below will no longer take you to the scene I was describing.
I'd heard of it before and had just recently come across again a few months back and thought hmmm...this will make me feel like shit if I watch it, and I passed. I can't hardly stand these docs about throwaway kids. Hits too close to home. I had a cry right as it started and again a couple few times through. Had to stop watching for a bit and eat summat. Eggs and Halal bacon which is crap, so not bacon. Tastes like those Carl Buddig paper thin luncheon meats fried up. I think if you're gonna go that route, screw the halal faux bacon business and go straight for the NDN steak, fried bologna, and don't forget to slash your slice in to the centre so you get a disc done up looks like a pac man pieface. wakawaka
Ok, the thing that gets to me the most is that these kids have nobody looking out for them but each other. The adults, society, have totally failed them. Every scene with their parents is tragic.
The dad wants to do right by his kid, but he's in jail! Oh the irony of don't smoke too much as he lights up.
Nobody should be having to live such a hardscrabble existence, and especially not kids. The system is down. They get no respect, even and especially from the people whose jobs are to help them. Like wtf is up with the social worker guy walking into the girl's apartment and hassling her and her boyfriend while they're naked wrapped in towels? Who does that! Where's the common courtesy to deal with her on a basis of, I'll give you a moment to get dressed before we talk?
Whatever though, because that's fairly trivial, and just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to lack of respect. Besides, it's not just him who's failing the kids. The system failed their parents too, and on to the next generation, and so on, rinse and repeat. When you see people who are living on the street, it's hard to make excuses for that situation existing. We've obviously failed our obligations to each other and our future, and created an underclass who struggle against terrible odds. The system is geared towards criminalising survival behaviour that only exists because the safety net that should be there has failed, and when the kids can't jump over the hurdles, and through the hoops, they think they are the failures, not that deck is hugely stacked against them. We've created a society where way too many don't have even a reasonable expectation of thriving and I don't know that another homeless shelter or non-profit soup kitchen stop gap solution is gonna do much to reverse this situation.
Ugh. My heart hurts.
What happened to them after? (Obvious spoilers)
More about Tiny and clips from Erin, a 2004 followup doc on Tiny.
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