Besides having no aesthetic or technical skill, the filmmaker spends the majority of the film asking tactless questions of both the parents and the children featured. I'm not sure of her background but she really didn't seem to know how to build relationships with the people in the film. It came off as sloppy and exploitative. The filmmaker doesn't seem to have experienced poverty before and that definitely shows in the types of facepalm questions she asks. At one point a six year old boy calls her out for asking dumb questions and that was basically the highlight of the film for me. I didn't make it all the way through.
If this type of subject interests you but you want to watch a well made film, check out Florida Project. It's not a doc but very good.
If this type of subject interests you but you want to watch a well made film, check out Florida Project. It's not a doc but very good.
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