Sheer Inspiration - Listen to a Soul and Really See Them...

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2009)

There are certain instruments that fill the Soul with such longing, comfort and Heart all rolled into one. The Cello, Oboe and the Violin are all in that category. And there are points when this movie brings you to tears with just the sound of the Cello alone...
Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr., the Director and crew... out did themselves. Thank you one and all!
Back East classical music fills the air with open amphitheaters and impromptu's. However, the West coast is filled with IPods and MP3s and only the annual Festivals fill the air. Yet, such music as This is worth more than any electronic - It is the sound of Love. The sound of Heaven kissing the Soul of Mankind....with Grace.
90,000 is probably a low estimate, the homeless travel and migrate. I rarely travel to the cities and when I do, the homeless is usually what I see - that and healthy people walking past sick people. On one occasion, the circumference of the homeless man's legs measured 2 inches thick and his legs poke out from newspaper covers. He slept during the day so that he could protect himself during the night...It broke my Heart.
Yet they are not alone. The last 11 months have been a series of visits among family and friends during my own homelessness. Even today, I sleep on the floor cleaning a house in exchange for free rent - waiting to become a tenant in a handful of days. Hoping and praying that December can be filled with a normal experience - the joy of Christmas. And hoping and praying that HUD will choose to pay a portion of the rent. You see I am Fortunate. I still have a mind clear enough, family and friends deep enough and a working concept of nutrition. I am well off compared to people like Mr. Ayers; as this movie exposes - most homeless do not.
Somewhere our country lost a Great Truth - not everyone can be a viable citizen - every waking moment of awareness. As a Nation, we let go of the insane asylum concept in the 70's and left nothing in its vacuum. The churches scrambled to fill it - yet most lost funding. In the 90's, halfway houses were developed and most California counties survive on this answer. It is a good answer, yet as we can see, not every individual can embrace being inside.
Somewhere in our Nation's future, we need to build viable, renewable gardens for the homeless. A Skid row with food growing on the walls. Why? Because the answer for most of today's mental illness is found in the healing power of food and today, we have viable methods for growing food vertically. America needs self-sustaining answers for the long-term.
Fore the very Soul of a Homeless man is as Beautiful as any healthy citizen on the grid - they have simply lost the ability to articulate it and communicate it - and their citizenship is just as important as our own. Why? Because we are stronger together than apart.
Thank you again Cast, Crew and Scriptwriter. "It was beautiful."