A powerful documentary about an 14 acre garden in Los Angeles that was at the center of a decade long dispute. A piece of land in South Central that was considered a wasteland by the owner and the city only good for garbage or warehouses was turned into a lush garden by the mostly Latino community. After a dubious deal between the city and the owner, the gardeners are driven out but not without a fight which is at heart of this film by multi-tasking writer and director Scott Hamilton Kennedy. The story as complex and rich as you would expect it in any piece of great literature full with noble characters, shady characters and everything in between. The complex film equally works as a social commentary of culture clashes between the powerful rich and helpless poor, courtroom drama and political thriller. It shows that there's plenty of real drama happening in Hollywood's backyards if only somebody looks for it. YRCinema's coverage of upcoming releases.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Garden
A powerful documentary about an 14 acre garden in Los Angeles that was at the center of a decade long dispute. A piece of land in South Central that was considered a wasteland by the owner and the city only good for garbage or warehouses was turned into a lush garden by the mostly Latino community. After a dubious deal between the city and the owner, the gardeners are driven out but not without a fight which is at heart of this film by multi-tasking writer and director Scott Hamilton Kennedy. The story as complex and rich as you would expect it in any piece of great literature full with noble characters, shady characters and everything in between. The complex film equally works as a social commentary of culture clashes between the powerful rich and helpless poor, courtroom drama and political thriller. It shows that there's plenty of real drama happening in Hollywood's backyards if only somebody looks for it. YRCinema's coverage of upcoming releases.
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I think it also gets to the heart of the question of to whom the earth belongs.
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, miseries, and horrors might mankind have been spared, if someone had pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch, and shouted to his fellow-men: `Beware of listening to this imposter; you are ruined if you forget that the fruits of the earth are everyone's and that the soil itself is no one's." -Rousseau.
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