Palms

Visionary, fascinating and touching stuff.

Tried to watch this. Some moving black & white imagery but could only take so much of the nonsensical, depressing narration. Recommend watching a documentary on Mother Theresa instead.

It burns into you. It is deeply sad yet bravely suggests a freedom to homelessness, lionising the subjects. The images of black and white streets and homes of garbage stick in the mind, while the continuous narration avoids becoming didactic by becoming an interrogation of the narrator's own mind. It doesn't matter if it's a documentary, reaching ideas on life through the director simply looking at the world around him and creating something legitimately profound.