Title: Too many unanswered questions
Product review: I bought this after watching Season 4 of The Wire (for the second time), looking for another angle on possible solutions to the problems of kids in Baltimore. While "Boys of Baraka" is a documentary, not a television drama, I felt it didn't even meet the standards of daily mainstream journalism, let alone a documentary.This film is simple observation without insight or perspective. I did not get answers even to basic questions, such as how the school started, who started it, why the founders picked Baltimore and Kenya, who funds it, why almost all the teachers and counselors were white, what their background is ... etc. etc.I'm not asking for hyper-attitude Michael Moore here, but I expect more from a documentary than following people around with a camera. (Google to find Time article from Oct 2000 and recent article from Baltimore Sun)
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