"The Line - Poverty in America"
I really like the documentary; I think that the very first thing it wants to communicate as is that everybody in this world can become a victim of poverty. In the documentary we have the example of the banker; before he lost his job he had a good life, but after loses his job he lives under the line of poverty. We have other examples that in my opinion explain how everybody might be living under the poverty line such as single father in the suburbs who now relies on a food pantry and an aging Louisiana fisherman whose shrimp business has been devastated by the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This last case, the fisherman, a person who owns a little business fishing shrimp and his life was a comfortable life, suddenly something external of him and something in which he is not able to combat like an oil spill destroys all his business, the only way that he had to earn money, and now he doesn’t know what to do to earn some money.
After all assignments about Poverty in America I realized that there is too much poverty in America that I thought. Even more that in Europe which is where I am from. However, once I realized there is more poverty in America that I thought I noticed that in the streets there are a lot more homeless in this country than in every countries in the first world. I also realized that fortunately the poverty in the world is decreasing little by little but otherwise we have a lot of work to do in order to have the entire population in this world living above the poverty line described in the documentary.