A really excellent and powerful film, I think Robert Downey Jr. is great in it and Jamie Foxx gives a brilliantly moving performance. It was harder to watch than I thought would be as it is not quite the feel good movie that it’s been portrayed as being but then it is a true story and real life is always more complicated than fiction. It is quite dark look at the problem of homelessness in Los Angeles and the associated issue of mental health. There are over 80 000 homeless people in LA and it seems most of them if they didn’t have mental health issues before which were a factor in them becoming homeless then the situation of being on the streets causes them to develop issues. But that being said it does leave you with a message about the power of friendship and caring for our fellow man.
