Imagine that there was an awful park in a down-trodden neighborhood, and it was one care-taker who worked for the City that committed himself to make things better. And did it. Nice story, right? Sounds like it would make an interesting and worthy documentary, no matter how short, right?
Well, here's the 9 minute documentary about Park Caretaker, Richard Davis.
Then, after watching it, something happened. I realized the park, that never gets mentioned by name, isn't in South LA or some "forgotten part" of Los Angeles. It's in the Valley! And not an area that is extremely challenged: it's in North Hollywood Park, which is just blocks from Toluca Lake and Studio City!
Don't be misled by this, though, the caretaker has done a good job; but there is an entire crew at that regional park. And, honestly, in the last 5 years or so, it has never been that bad of a park.
The filmmakers lead the viewer to believe this was a true lost cause - was it really ever that bad?
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I don't get why this documentary never says it is North Hollywood Park.
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