Voices In the Tunnels: IN Search of the Mole People
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Actor: Erik Oberholtzer, Jennifer Toth, Kenny Chery, The Mole People, Vic DavidDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 56 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-10
Studio: Studio 7NY
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DVD Review: Degrading and reprehensible
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't know where all these 'alien autopsy' and other insensitive reviews come from. Writing like there are some dark mysterious other-worldly creatures lurking underground. I think it is terrible to call these people "mole people". These are homeless people on the fringe of society. Many of them obviously have mental health problems or they wouldn't live the lives they lead. They have chosen to live with others who will accept them without being critical of them - sheltered from the disgust that would be showered on them on the street. Even the title, "Mole People", is an obvious way of depersonalizing these people. How much more degrading can we get than describing these people as "moles"? They are no different and no worse than a homeless person who spends the night in a shelter, except these people have chosen a different shelter where they can remain hidden from a society that wants to totally ignore both them and their basic human needs. In their world, they don't have to be 'bums' on the street in the eyes of people who walk past them, being ignored and despised by a society that would like like to pretend the most needy in our country didn't exist. Instead we dehumanize them - make mental illness and homelessness amusing, and easier to ignore because, after all, they're moles and that's what they want to be. So feel free to take a few fleeting glances at their lives on this film with the same morbid fascination people used to have at 'freak shows'. These are people who would be totally ignored if they were sitting on a street corner with a tin can to collect a little change. So don't look at these people as some bizarre phenomenon lurking in the bowels of New York. This film is nothing more than 'sensationaling' mental illness and homeless people in what anyone would consider terrible living conditions. This film is no different than looking at these poor people as if they were animals in a zoo to be gawked at. Hunting them down so we can entertain ourselves with their plight. Some fun, huh? That is about as insensitive as one person can be towards another. In a way, I found one aspect of this film somewhat positive. It shows people who are denegrated to a status of less than human - moles - to be people who in their own way have created their own 'society' in which they are not judged by "non-mole" people like us - shielded from the very kind of people who watch this film with some degree of amusement and sick fascination. The subway areas are a sanctury for them - a place where they can find a kind of acceptance that society above ground would never even attempt to provide for them. So don't cast these people as "moles". They are just as human as you and I, but it is easier for us "non-moles" to ignore the issues that drove such people underground in the first place. What next? A film interviewing people in a mental institution? How about sending a cameraman into a homeless shelter at night? That should be good for a few chuckles. Unless you have absolutely no sense of human decency, watch this film with sadness in your heart - seeing what some members of the human race (yes - human race - not moles) must do in order to find others who will accept them unconditionally. Oh, and by the way, next time anyone asks you something about yourself, tell them that you are a "non-mole". Then you can stand tall and be proud of your "non-moleness". After all, isn't looking down on others the best way to make you feel better about yourself? I hope not.
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