Starts off wrong, but...
The opening scroll states "at an abandoned naval base and still active bombing range..." both of these statements are incorrect. The location filmed is referred to as Slab City or "The Slabs" and the land is part of an abandoned US Marine Corps base, Camp Dunlap, and is NOT an active bombing range. To the North and East is the USMC Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range but the Slabs is not within the range.
The Slabs used to be a haven for the displaced... a dysfunctional community that looked after it's own. Now it's a tourist attraction for the yuppy millennials and the privileged, entitled "wannabes". The Slabs has turned into a ghetto Burning Man... a human "zoo" for people to gawk at those less fortunate.
The film provides an unfiltered, nonjudgemental look at these people before the tourists began flocking in. All of the people filmed have either passed away or moved on. The Slabs is no longer a safe place for these troubled people... unfortunately due to films just like this one.
Enjoy a Slab City that no longer exists.
The Slabs used to be a haven for the displaced... a dysfunctional community that looked after it's own. Now it's a tourist attraction for the yuppy millennials and the privileged, entitled "wannabes". The Slabs has turned into a ghetto Burning Man... a human "zoo" for people to gawk at those less fortunate.
The film provides an unfiltered, nonjudgemental look at these people before the tourists began flocking in. All of the people filmed have either passed away or moved on. The Slabs is no longer a safe place for these troubled people... unfortunately due to films just like this one.
Enjoy a Slab City that no longer exists.
- davidjdoyle-140-892335
- May 12, 2020