A house on my back
"Home is the place where,
when you have to go there,
they have to take you in."
Robert Frost
Doubtless, I need to take a lot of time If I need to choose my best movie, because I have an enormous amount of choices. I love to waste my time watching movies and learning about different fiction stories or not. Obviously, I need to consider a great kind of elements to make my choice: topic, place, people, message, narrative form, etc.
However, probably my first option would be the prize-winner colombian piece titled The Strategy of the Snail (1994). This film, based on a true story, tells the story about an entire group of tenants who have serious differences but share a shelter home in the center of Bogota, capitol of Colombia. They are under a court order to leave, because the new owner and heir had intentions to use it for a different purpose. Although initially they resisted the idea, the tenants are forced to return the house, but first they decide painting it. Nevertheless, they are doing the opposite to dismantle this house.
On conclusion, I chose this movie, because in my opinion it is important to consider the situation of the homeless person. Especially, if I keep in mind my last experience with homeless in Baltimore last spring break, where I learned that we have a national and human responsability by the others. And although his story is real, sometimes we need fiction in our lives, particularly when we need to consider how to carry our home on the back. Or which is to say our people, at the end.
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