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Anyone seen the movie "Bus 174"? - Excellent Documentary
I just watched this and wow it's a powerful documentary. It covers the incident in 2000 in Brazil where a street kid took a bus of people hostage and in the end he died while in police custody and though nobody was ever charged suspicions are very high that he was killed by the police out of vengeance.
It is more broad though focusing on the life in the favellas in places like Rio. To me it's just so hard to watch these kids growing up in circumstances where they have absolutely no hope of ever escaping these lives. The society is corrupt and the wealthier population despises these people, the police often commit terrible acts of violence against them.
A film like this just really makes me think and I just can't help feeling guilty about the things that bother me on a day to day basis. We stress ourselves out worrying about whether we're going to earn XXXXX amount of money, get that raise we wanted, how our stocks are doing and so on. We see this stuff so often and most of us have just learned to ignore it really, but lately this kind of stuff has been having a greater effect on me, sometimes I consider just dropping what I do here and going to work for the Red Cross somewhere for a while and help out.
I think that confronting this kind of stuff is tough but good in a sense in that all the crap I'm worrying about seems absolutely trivial now and when I really think about it, it is. To me, it isn't just the poverty and negative circumstances but I mean can you even imagine living in a place where no matter what you try you have absolutely no hope of ever having a better existance.
I'd like to hear your thoughts if you've seen this and if not, I reccomend it highly, one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Really shows us just how out of whack our priorities are.
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