The Garden

Well-done, sometimes difficult to watch documentary about the South Central Urban Garden in LA and the attempts to run it off the property. Touches on rights of the poor, city corruption, squatters' rights, and the basic inhumanity of capitalism.

No masterpiece, but a solid film chronicling the fight of a few poor farmers to keep their farms on the country's largest urban farm. I would have especially appreciated a bit more insight into how the farmers received the land in the first place, and who gets to farm there. However, the obvious failings of local LA government and the greed of the land's previous and eventual owner are more than enough for a compelling drama.

I don't know what's more frustrating, the film's clear bias or the case itself, but it was nice to see that De LaRocha clip at the garden festival

I like it. Not too heavy-handed, just a moving story. I'd recommend it.