Living On One Dollar is the documentary that follows
the journey of four friends as they set out to Guatemala to live off only one
dollar a day for two months. The group
experiences parasites, hunger, financing, work troubles, and extreme
fatigue. The guys filming were just
college students, wanting to help and understand the world, so my heart really
went out to them. Unlike most documentaries
where you either want to dispose of the human race, or fly to Africa to help
sick, needy children because the movie broke your heart and made you bawl like
a baby, this documentary gives you a sense of what the world is like and gives
you a plan of action of how you can help.
The movie is filmed on low budget cameras, with interviews and random
shots of conversations of the lives of the boys interacting amongst themselves
and with the Guatemalans. Documentary is a completely different genre, while no
plot is actually set out, the documentation of lives or ways of living soon
becomes an interesting story that you don’t want to stop watching. I would give this movie a 6.5/10 because it
was happy and adventurous, but I don’t feel the need to watch it again.
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