In the gutter and other good essays

In the gutter and other good essays In the gutter and other good places The award winning film documentary In the gutter and other good places by Christine Richey is a multi-spectral view of three Calgary dumpster diving bottle pickers. The film traverses the ordinarily drawn stereotype of the homeless pickers of Calgary, and provides another compassionate standpoint on the choices and circumstances that have embodied their current predicament. Richey selects three very different street people for her story all with their unique backgrounds. Challenging assumptions about street people and their image to society, we are introduced first of all to Ron who has a masters degree in engineering sciences and was an senior employee for Gulf Oil earning $33,000 until alcoholism caused him to resign, we are then introduced to Colin a highly educated 22 year old man with a Russian accent. Collin himself has made the choice to be a bottle picker because of a combination of his mothers death and his views towards society. Upon his mothers passing Colin received $90,000 in inheritance and was to pursue an interest in electrical engineering, however Colin refuses to touch a dime out of his account stating harrowely that this is the way lives and is the way he wants to live What do I want? I would like to get myself out of the financial sector... maybe all the way into the financial gutter and Garbage its the number one industry in Nor th America and Im in the number one business. Finally we have jean who returned home one night as a married man to find that his wife had abandoned him and taken his two young children this led Jean to alcohol and nearly twenty years later on the street as an older bottle picker with kidney and liver problems. In summation, Richey sought to educate the Canadian populous of the backgrounds of the bottle pickers to show that they are not static shells that they have substance and a ...