They are hidden cases behind barriers, windows and closed doors, rusted gates, walls that fall apart and ceilings that don´t exist. They are people that stumbled in the waste and the ... See full synopsis
Os Esquecidos (2009) Online
- Original Title :
- Os Esquecidos
- Genre :
- Movie / Documentary
- Year :
- 2009
- Directror :
- Pedro Neves
- Type :
- Movie
- Time :
- 1h 2min
- Rating :
- 6.6/10
They are hidden cases behind barriers, windows and closed doors, rusted gates, walls that fall apart and ceilings that don´t exist. They are people that stumbled in the waste and the disillusionment, the deprivation, lost and aguish. They are people that were pushed from dreams to the ground. They are people who could be us. I wanted to direct a documentary about today´s world. About a world of progress which has forgotten people. I wanted to show real people, that hide and are hidden, people that you can not see and are forgotten. I never wanted to label or limit myself in exposing the misery and poverty. I always preferred to understand the causes and consequences, to understand how a single event in life can provoke such profound change, how from one moment to another we can fall in to the abyss. And how difficult it is to get out. There are generations growing up and living in a hole without a bottom, with habits arising out of impotence, many times from apathy and an inability to...