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I popped this film into my DVD player with absolutely no knowledge of what I was about to see. Just the way I like it. I was pleasantly surprised by this pseudo-documentary. I think of it as "the film white conservatives don't want you to see." Yes, the lives it follows are of people who make bad choices...but it also shows that they are people, with hopes, and dreams, and loved ones. It shows that they are not merely their stereotypes, but can also express emotions, and feel sorrow and pain. Suzette is a young teenager of undetermined age, who falls sway to the charisma of crack dealer and thug Terrell. She gets in trouble (think swollen belly), and then he gets into bigger trouble, and his bigger trouble lands Suzette in lock-up while Terrell is free to carry on his business unfettered. Marisol is a young woman and mother to beautiful little Autumn...but Marisol is also a crackhead who scrounges pennies to buy poor food for her daughter but manages to have a twenty to buy a few rocks from Terrell. While high she wanders into a crosswalk and gets hit by a car...and then arrested for being under the influence and put into lock-up. Oz is a gorgeous 17-year old crack dealer with the face (and heart) of a lioness. Her developmentally disabled brother, Chuey, is the only positive thing in her life, and though she deals, she is disgusted by and despises crackheads. Her mother being one. She is in and out of lock-up frequently. The stories of these three girls come together at the detention center, but they are peripherally connected both before and after. This film offers no solutions or happy endings, it simply seeks to relate some stories that you might not otherwise hear. There are no villains or saints in this movie. In fact, everyone except Oz stays the same or moves towards worse habits, and the final epiphany Oz makes comes with some high costs. I think that everyone should see this inspired and affecting film. Those living on the streets could relate and maybe take a lesson, and those not on the streets can see that those on the streets are not always social pariahs...sometimes they are just like us: flawed human beings. email this review to a friend
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