The Human Experience is a documentary following two brothers as they question the meaning of life. In order to find some clarity on the question, they go and visit/live with some of humanity's less favorable. First they take a week in New York City and live like homeless people. They sleep in boxes with a homeless community, beg for money and food, and even visit a soup kitchen. They go around talking to some of the other homeless people to try and get their thoughts on life. What keeps the motivated to wake up and live another day.
After a week with the homeless, the travel to Peru with a group of surfers that travel around the world looking for waves and also volunteer services. That's where they meet The Lost Children of Peru. A children's hospital/orphanage for underprivileged children in desperate need of hospital care. Some of the children have been abandoned because of their conditions others have been abused to the point of deformity. But yet, all the children seem happy that they have found a place where they can receive the attention they need and can be safe.
After that the brothers team up with two of their friends to travel to Ghana. First they meet with people dieing from AIDS. One is a mother, one a young man, and one is a child who was born with it. They talk about being hopeful that medicine will come and save them. Or just being grateful for every day they get. Afterwards, they travel to a Leper colony and speak with them about their thoughts and feelings.
Like I said before, this movie just made me feel like a piece of shit that isn't doing anything with my life (eventhough they seemed to preach that everyone makes a difference no matter how great or small) but that didn't make me feel any better. I wish someone would just give money to me to travel around the world, helping people, then I would totally do it but unfortunately I am not made with money. In fact, if you saw my paycheck you would probably want to give me money. Anyways, back to the movie. Aside from the homeless section, I enjoyed the movie. I wasn't a huge fan of the main guy they followed though. He kept talking about how people can't understand what he has been through, but it took him almost the entire film to actually talk about what he had been through. Sure he might have said a sentence or two along the way, but its hard to really feel for someone when they are closed off.
Rating: ***
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