Reactions To “Through a Blue Lens”

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Cohen Health 16 November 2010 Reactions to “Through a Blue Lens” The documentary “Through a Blue Lens” was quite an unexpected surprise. Well at least according to me. I expected to see an anti-drug documentary, produced on a low budget, that was very old and hardly relatable that was supposed to scare me with all the horribly disgusting effects of drugs, but I was instead confronted with the “compassionate” and “human” underbelly of the skids in Vancouver. This sudden turn of events, left me quite dumbfounded, of which I found truly remarkable for such a measly thing as a film. The documentary quickly overturned and far exceeded my expectations when the police officers actually started socializing with the addicts as if they were friends from long ago. This deeply confused me, as I have never seen anyone, even in our own society as a whole take such a supportive position towards the homeless and unwanted street urchin addicts. This I found deeply moving and applaud for those officers that actually saw the human and dignity in the drug addicts. Because of the film’s documentary nature, the acting or more precisely, the not-acting of the characters was superb and really conveyed the sense of despair and misery that the addicts faced. This helped underscored the film’s nitty-gritty feel that helped to contribute to the pretty awful lives of the addicts. The documentary however still pushed an underlying message warning against the use of drugs, but the film did it in such an honest and transparent way, totally unlike any previous anti-drug propaganda I have seen before, that it actually persuaded me that drugs are actually quite evil. Overall, “Through a Blue Lens” was an eyebrow raising, head turning, delightful gem of documentary. I feel that the producers did an excellent job in conveying their message in an unbiased manner and had the viewer make their own

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