richardmurray

My Comment
the problem with films like this is the end makes people feel good, this is why  I prefer films like the internationalist or EMitai from ousmane sembene where the end gives the feeling most people get in the real world when they try to help somebody else against a system... the reality that they have failed and they have a choice, to keep trying to help another or become a cog in the system... 
IN AMENDMENT
many commentors to this video talk about doing good like it is a new act. What people don't seem to comprehend about human history is, people always try to do good. They learn that they can't influence change the way they wish and either become cogs in a machine or keep being the usually solitary agent against the system, which is usually financially unprofitable/socially praised while also chagrined for its lack of profit <the black community in the usa talks about black leaders in the 1960s but you don't see black parents talking about their children being advocates for the black community, but law enforcers/soldiers/doctors or other agents of the system>/hard to find even the smallest community with

another interesting take on another film

My thoughts
circa 15:24 you made one huge error, you describe the usa as a melting pot and a mix of cultures, that is not true. if you look at the usa historically, it only became anything close to a melting pot in the 1960s and even then that was more broken glass pieces on the ground, not a melting pot... I think the immigrant community likes to tell a myth about the usa they came to. It wasn't a melting pot and in the usa, regionally it isn't for the most part. and that is why the modern immigrant community primarily stemming from the 1960s are always viewed by many regions in the usa as a perpetual other cause, no melting ever occured. the chinese american community in nyc is older than nyc, it as when new york was new amsterdam and yet, with the sars cov 2 many in nyc, not asian had very negative views towards a community that has been aside every other in nyc for its entire history, over hundreds of years.