Saturday, January 15, 2022
Drifting
Newly released from prison, a man along his fellow homeless street sleepers loses all of their possessions without any warning when the city’s cleanup program loads their things all into garage trucks. Follow the plight of the homeless as social workers try right this wrong. This Hong Kong film is based on an actual 2013 court case. The film focuses on a small band of individuals struggling in their sad little world but are willing to look out for each other. Although this is set in China, it is easy to see that homelessness is the same all around the world. The film is spoken in Cantonese with English subtitles. Even my rusty old Chinese American brain, which can’t speak it, could still understand certain key words & phrases. This film tries to bring back some humanity to the unfortunate that most would rather be unseen.
Alien gives it 2½ “seeking an apology” stars out of 4.
