Scrappers

pretty good film
Overall I liked the film. 4 dollars is a little steep since it was paid for already by tax dollars. I do understand that these people are just trying to make a living. I do scrap myself from time to time. Work is getting kinda hard to find and many people are trying to eek out a life. Many people do get mad at scrappers since most think that they are no go thieves. Some are but most are pretty honest. I like the two stories coming from the minority prospective. I was there when the prices dropped, it sucked. I hope things come back soon. good movie

Well-made documentary
This film gets up close with two scrappers in Chicago. Scrappers are metal collectors who may roam the alleyways for waste metal, which they sell to metal recyclers. Sometimes they try to refurbish an item and we see this with a motorcycle. I saw this film > a year ago, and since no reviews, I'll give you my rusty account of it. Both scrappers are nice. These guys are not stealing signal equipment from railroads, though wire stealing comes up. One of the scrappers is hispanic, a family man who is an illegal here. The other is a black man with scrapping in his blood. You also meet their SO's: family, a girlfriend, a back alley bar-b-que of scrappers. A local metal buyer is portrayed. He keeps a sharp eye on commodity prices and has his cute office cat nearby. About that time a neighbor told us how he lost a cat when it jumped onto a scrappers' truck, could this be that cat?

Two of the filmmakers appeared at my viewing. They explained they are sharing the proceeds equally...



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