Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home

One of the strongest and best documentaries I have ever seen. A must watch to even be shown in high schools or college. I watched this a few years ago and still I am very much influenced by what I have seen. Even though I knew that many homeless people self medicate and take certain drugs to counter the side effects of certain pharmaceuticals they have been prescribed. It still made me learn more about certain lives , lives that are unrepresented, whilst 'we' keep watching movies, shows, vlogs, instagrams etc about the privileged whiney narcissists. This doc shows how the system - made for the basic healthy norm' is flawed and the invisible people fall through the mazes of that system. Time and time again, also in Europe where I am from. I am so glad that this documentary exists and that it voices for the invisible and voiceless and can be shown to those that easily judge and say 'all homeless people are bums'. Their pathetic need to compartmentalize the world in simple black and white boxes so they won't have to think or feel. Those ..are the people that truly ruin this world..those and the narcissistic that just don't care about none but themselves. The system is flawed, so it's on use human beings to think, to introspect and empathise..so we can truly help one another. Damn..this world is an f'in trip.

This film is a touching and candid portrayal of life on the streets of Los Angeles' Skid Row. I was truly enlightened by the compelling spirit of love and community in this troubled pocket of Los Angeles. Who knew? I just want to hug all the characters in this film. And they are true characters - all with their own unique and diverse stories, but their paths all led them to LA's Skid Row. Lost Angels is an eye opening, mind opening and heart opening film filled with life, laughter and insight into the humanity that lives in the heart of LA. I will never look at another homeless or "on the skids" person the same as I have in the past. I understand now that they have their obstacles and demons, but don't we all? l have so much respect for the dignity these people have even in the worst of times. DirectorThomas Napper does an exceptional job crafting this message of hope.