Street Corners: a Year in an Inner City Community (translated Documentary)
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Drugs are banned repeatedly, poverty is everywhere, and families are falling apart. Why has the street corner become a fate that the poor cannot escape? Corner of Fayette and Monroe Streets, West Baltimore. In this forgotten corner, the "American Dream" has long been fragmented to the point where only a nightmare remains. People pay an unimaginably heavy price for drugs. But at the same time, there is still hope, care and love here. "Street Corner" truly records the anxious story that happened in Baltimore, an inland city in the United States, within a year. It mainly revolves around fifteen-year-old DeAndre and his broken family. It tracks a group of marginalized people struggling for survival, reveals the complicated street corner world, and each vivid image appears in detail. Street corners teem with predators and prey, drug dealers and robbers, as well as a mixed bag of police officers, unarmed drug addicts and innocent victimized passers-by. This documentary chronicles the story of street crime in the inner-city city of Baltimore over the course of a year, capturing an unprecedented view of an America that most people know little about. Through just one street corner, the authors vividly demonstrate how little role law enforcement, moral crusaders, and the welfare system play in a landlocked city like Baltimore. "Street Corners" takes ordinary readers deep into those forgotten corners of the United States to understand what people there think, feel and understand.
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