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Streetwise
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by Fox Lorber
Sales Rank: 2327
Price: $19.98
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I absolutely love this movie. You get to know the characters intimately. I love how it is filmed in 1984 and looks it. Lost kids, lost time. POWERFUL. Please, PLEASE some one release this on DVD!
Viewer Reviews
Although this video was shot some time ago, by the famed photographer Mary Ellen Mark, the conditions are as applicable now as they were back when it was made some years ago. This video "Streetwise" portays the life of several street kids in Seattle: "Tiny", the prostitute, who can't be any more than about 13 or 14; "Rat" who goes dumpster-diving for food; and Roberta Josephine (Bobbie Jo) who was eventually strangled to death by Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer", active in Seattle at that time and responsible for the deaths of many runaways in the Seattle area.
The conditions under which these kids live and survive is appalling. "Rat" lives in an abandoned hotel, the windows boarded up, sleeping on an old mattress on the floor. It's chilling to think of a kid being there, though he is with an older friend. You have to wonder how terrifying their home lives must have been to make them flee like that and end up on the streets with nowhere to go, and nobody to turn to. One boy hanged himself because he couldn't stand his life anymore.
The parents of these kids are nowhere to be seen; if they are, they are completely apathetic and uninvolved in their kids' lives; their boyfriends are far more important. This goes on as I write this; today, many kids live on the streets just as they did when this video was made. Yet nothing is being done about it. This video is well worth viewing; it provides an eye-opening look at the lives of these children, seen as "throwaways". In an age when everyone is baby-crazy, and going to any length whatsoever to have a child, it makes me wonder why some of these people don't take in foster kids and help them. I highly recommend this video. I'm a former college professor and I showed it to a graduate class of mine three years ago; they could not stop talking about it!
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