I, a foreign filmmaker, meet a homeless on a train in Chicago. His name is James and he usually uses the train just to sleep. While I am filming him, I find that Chicago actually is one of the most segregated cities in the world. It is segregated by 'race' and 'money', and this segregation has been planned from long ago. When the filming is near its end, I try to really communicate with James, but I fail because of my own limits as one of the privileged, and my attempts to ma...
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I, a foreign filmmaker, meet a homeless on a train in Chicago. His name is James and he usually uses the train just to sleep. While I am filming him, I find that Chicago actually is one of the most segregated cities in the world. It is segregated by 'race' and 'money', and this segregation has been planned from long ago. When the filming is near its end, I try to really communicate with James, but I fail because of my own limits as one of the privileged, and my attempts to manipulate James to fit my self-interests as a filmmaker.
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