Homeless home away from home.

In the Caribbean as a young adult the simplest things can cause you to be homeless. Verbally disrespecting your parents, not watching the wares on time, forgetting to take the meat out of the deep freeze are some ways to easily become homeless in the Caribbean. If we are speaking logical things like drug addiction, crime and poor financial stability can cause you to be homeless. It is probably in the top ten scariest things to happen to a human. One day you’re comfortably laying in your bed, the next you are sleeping on a cardboard box. Damn, I could imagine how terrifying the first night would. All these thoughts flashing by on where you were before you ended up there. Just the thought as made me realize that being homeless is not the easiest thing. You’re living by faith. Hoping to have something to eat, hoping to have somewhere to sleep, hoping to survive, that must be terrifying. With the trauma clearly shown I still believe homelessness is paid as much attention to as it should be. I can speak from the stand point of being from Trinidad. We’ve grown accustomed to the regular vagrant every other corner. We have grown accustom to the vagrant in front of the bank. We have grown accustom to vagrant full of a pee scent. Our culture has groomed us in to thinking of the vagrant as a public art piece. What is a public area without a vagrant? A vagrant, Port of Spain’s finest piece of art.

What I appreciate about some vagrant’s they appreciate the little that they received. When I saw the title THE LITTLE THINGS-HOMELESS IN NEW YORK I was anxious to cement the thought that gratitude from vagrants was a worldwide thing. My anxiousness was what drew me to watch the documentary. The subject Maiko Newell was introduced as the main subject. Now Michael is supposed to be homeless, supposed to be. His attire and character said differently. This made me to believe that many characteristics of a displaced person may exist. More than that on messed up looking displaced person. So, I took back the visually interpretation on what I thought a vagrant was and realize that the displaced doesn’t have a particular look. Well minus my stereotypical view of a homeless person, Maiko Newell spent the entire documentary trying to convince viewers not to call him homeless. Maiko if you didn’t want to be called homeless why allowed the word homeless be broadcasted in the title. His reasoning is because he believed he has more access to certain things that vagrants can. So why steal the spotlight. I think it would’ve have been more humane to give another homeless person in a serious situation to share their story. The documentary intended to show the space in New York where Maiko was homeless. It honestly felt like I was watching a scenery video of New York. All the wide shots and overhead shots of New York felt more like a tourist attraction video. I mean, damn, if that is where homeless people live I won’t mind being homeless in New York.