In Motion

A train, a homeless man and a mistaken identity....

Directed, filmed, edited and narrated by Richard Calvache

Featured on Youtube May 28, 2008 and in Australia and New Zealand.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• homeless
• LIRR
• Calvache
• KRec
• Queens
• New
• York
• City
• MTA
• Woodside
• Jackson
• Heights
• subway
• Platform
• train
• Roosevelt
• Avenue

[LesYeuxDeDarius]

This story is really awesome, I heard it maybe a year ago and I was amazed back then, that one homeless man, happy for a brief moment that he's friend made something out of him, something he couldn't archive, something he had fail to do ... Always when he says "Im good", it gives me chills, it makes ME happy for a very brief moment ...

[LibbyLaMano]

If we all had this man's "feelings" for our fellow man, this would be a much better country than it is today

[ChicagoStories]

Praise the Lord and pass the antacid. Ever try reasoning with a bible thumper? About anything, really anything at all? Everything with one of them is a canned sermon from a mind that could not be more tightly closed. Had I followed that link sooner, I would have known better than to pursue this discussion for even a second. If anybody else was thinking of making the mistake of attempting a dialog with this man, follow the guy's homepage link and see that what I am saying is true.

[ChicagoStories]

I just visited HowlingWolf1910's listed homepage, and wished I had done so sooner. Bible thumping, Christian fundamentalism with a dash of New Age wackiness, added for spice. You can find it at shatterthedarkness period n e t. I liked the title of one of his pieces: "Will the Pyramids become a weapon: Examining the Alien Mind" found at preemptionbroadcast period podomatic period c o m slash question mark badge equals one. The 700 club meets the Syfy Channel? Televangelism on acid?

[ChicagoStories]

continuing .. By your own admission, you've ignored all of these, and shared with us nothing more than a knee jerk reaction to the notion that a particular homeless character's situation can be counted on to not improve, your reaction being based on nothing more than the fact of his homelessness. I seriously wonder if you even watched the video.

A discussion with somebody like you has nowhere to go. I've blocked you. We're done. Have a nice life.

[ChicagoStories]

@HowlingWolf1910 : "I am talking about the odds of a homeless person's life getting better - and not assuming that it won't or cannot. "

I'm not going to get into an "is so, is not" contest" with somebody who is clearly here because he is in love with the sound of his own voice. We do know something about the character, whose reactions, words and even tone are shared with us in the story, enough of each that we are not looking at a generic homeless character.

[HowlingWolf1910]

@ChicagoStories Simply bringing up the possibility that if this person IS real, it's not hopeless. And that it's an unknown if his life will never get better .... that would be an inconclusive presupposition, as we don't even know if this is a real person or not. We ... I am talking about the odds of a homeless person's life getting better - and not assuming that it won't or cannot.

[Ladder155]

Wow....thats all i can say is wow. Those words are so powerful....the story, the images, the imagination of what that day must have been like....wow

[ChicagoStories]

@HowlingWolf1910 We're not talking about homeless people in general, we're talking about a specific character in a specific story, the one being told in this video.

[wild4inxs]

This video is wonderful, the sound track goes and the train just becomes the impassive background, so cold, so familiar, and just maybe, there could be hope.

[HowlingWolf1910]

@ChicagoStories There R many that get off the streets. Some just get bad breaks in life and lose their homes, jobs, etc. and they're not out there long. There's several groups that successfully help many get off the streets. Not everyone is hopeless. Sometimes it takes teamwork to help them. We had a homeless friend living with us, and he was ripped off by a minister. I took him out of his hands, took what little finances he had out of his control, helped him get a car, and now he's making it.

[TigerRocket]

"...I really felt his admiration and loneliness through his hug."

w o w.