The minority of films depict adult protagonists. Kids spend money and want too look at all that friskiness. Such is life and I stopped arguing with social physics decades ago.
But a person's face and body seem to move into their most memorable and most highly evolved form post 60. Usually by that time a person stops lying to themselves and is a long way from believing anything that comes from advertisements.
On first viewing I was looking for a portrait of an aging man on the street with nothing. But it turns out this man ran from his assets because of trauma and 1became a sort of professional avoider of everything. And the camera zooms in at a point where circumstance forces a very late life possibility for transition. My own perspectives on big city homelessness are infinitely more bleak and terminally hopeless and demented then watching this eminently sane and calm and urbane articulate and wise fellow hobbling through the streets, chin up, non alcoholic, refusing booze whenever its offered to him, seemed ridiculous.
But then I filtered it differently. If you take it on it's own terms, a man walking a hundred miles through the freezing rain and snow, crippled, with an important surgery imminent, because he likes his fellows in homelessness at a particular shelter during Xmas......and so goes for a stroll that would daunt an Olympic runner to get there.....
BUT, i paid more attention to his explanations of how this sorry plight developed, and while very little of his adventures enroute and relationships he reluctantly rebuilds were particularly plausible to me, the movie is well acted and has enough internal coherence to be interesting enough. Another film that pushes the limits of reality all the way, regarding the homeless, would be something like Cardboard Boxer. Actually, the. 2015 version of Frankenstein is the most accurate depiction of homelessness of these 3.
NONETHELESS (in addition to BUT) this hs something to offer. Good performance is always beguiling, and we have that here, and that's enough.
But a person's face and body seem to move into their most memorable and most highly evolved form post 60. Usually by that time a person stops lying to themselves and is a long way from believing anything that comes from advertisements.
On first viewing I was looking for a portrait of an aging man on the street with nothing. But it turns out this man ran from his assets because of trauma and 1became a sort of professional avoider of everything. And the camera zooms in at a point where circumstance forces a very late life possibility for transition. My own perspectives on big city homelessness are infinitely more bleak and terminally hopeless and demented then watching this eminently sane and calm and urbane articulate and wise fellow hobbling through the streets, chin up, non alcoholic, refusing booze whenever its offered to him, seemed ridiculous.
But then I filtered it differently. If you take it on it's own terms, a man walking a hundred miles through the freezing rain and snow, crippled, with an important surgery imminent, because he likes his fellows in homelessness at a particular shelter during Xmas......and so goes for a stroll that would daunt an Olympic runner to get there.....
BUT, i paid more attention to his explanations of how this sorry plight developed, and while very little of his adventures enroute and relationships he reluctantly rebuilds were particularly plausible to me, the movie is well acted and has enough internal coherence to be interesting enough. Another film that pushes the limits of reality all the way, regarding the homeless, would be something like Cardboard Boxer. Actually, the. 2015 version of Frankenstein is the most accurate depiction of homelessness of these 3.
NONETHELESS (in addition to BUT) this hs something to offer. Good performance is always beguiling, and we have that here, and that's enough.