Through a Blue Lens ( 1 / 6 )

This award-winning documentary film, shot in Vancouver, Canadas notorious Downtown Eastside, caught the eyes of audiences, film makers and critics world wide for its unusual and sensitive depiction of life on the street.

Through A Blue Lens documents a year of life and death on the street and behind tenement walls. The striking thing about the film is not the horror of drug abuse but the story of how the interaction between the police and the drug addicts, with the camera as a catalyst, actually changed the people involved. The cops became more sympathetic to the people on the street and the drug addicts, in having friendship extended to them by the police and film makers, developed self esteem and, in some cases, actually cleaned up.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Vancouver
• East Hastings
• Drugs
• Crack
• Homeless
• Police
• 2010 Olympic games
• poverty
• through a blue lens

[livemylifetomaiden]

I had to watch this video througha court ordered drug class cause i got busted with some dope

[TheAnonredpill]

@livemylifetomaiden When you say dope, you really mean marijuana right?

[hotgluegunfun1]

why do they bring back to life a person trying to checkout anyways

[arezki8]

Welllll I'm the dopeman yeah boy wear corduroy, money up to here but unemployed. Ya keep smockin that rock and my pockets gettin bigga. YEAAA got that five o double up nigga!!!

[gandhiji2101969]

@livemylifetomaiden So are you sober now? I mean are u not taking any more drugs?

[Usernamesarebunk420]

or perhaps he lost someone to addiction

[GiGixx621625]

we watched this for our planning 10 class, and in the end, my teacher --a man-- started crying.

[TheKewlbeanz83]

@Chaddillac28 Probably to make you think twice about trying drugs....

[strambologoII]

God, if u hear me: u r a joke.

[retardopose]

hipster at 5:10:P

[Chaddillac28]

this is super sad WHY do we have to WATCH THIS IN SCHOOL

[haagendazsminisrock]

this is an amazing film...best film on addiction i've ever seen