What's to expect when you're not expecting much really? Simply watched it out on a whim, just trying to see what's the social proposition presented could bring
to the table, in this particular case an American architect/desginer who made a special urbanistic project nearby a highway passage with a homeless shelter and with the
use of some art and other things the place would look a lot better than just another filthy place where poor people live and the community around would have an artistic
place as well. Interesting concept but it failed for lots of reasons (not so clear to me, if it was artist Vito Acconci who left the project halfway there or if the
public administration that killed for whatever reasons).
But here's a movie so out of order and coherence that I couldn't care about almost anything shown here. It takes an awful lot of time to actually get to talk about
the project, of which I could not understand what was exactly the benefit of it all - and since the man came here, made it halfway and left, and neither city hall officials
approved it it makes me wonder why bother doing it. Sure, it helped the community of Glicério and developed some improvement to them but it became pointless since the developer
couldn't supervise its conclusion or leave someone in charge of it. Actress Helena Ignez makes a very confusing film that begins nowhere and goes nowhere, and whose only
major point of interest in some audiences is in comparing the homelessness problem in two similar major cities like São Paulo (where the project was built) and New York
(where Vito lived), and how those cities live with it - in the advanced world it's all smiles and dancing in unusual places, here we got a man shouting about his current
status living miserably after being fired from a 23-year job and now he works for the community as a bricklayer.
Had it been made in a clear manner, with a higher purpose I might find it good or find some admirable qualities. Truth be told, I was annoyed, tired and empty
through the whole things and nope, this isn't a comment coming from someone seated on a high pedestal of privilege. It's coming from someone who lives in one of those
cities and now that there are a lot more that could and should be done for those who don't have nothing in life, and a confused artful project wasn't one of those things.
They need culture, obviously, but first give those poor people just the decency of a place worth living and worth working for. Something that can mean something for them, or change just a little their reality. 3/10.
