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A realtor who is quite sincerely arguing for the government to take steps to ensure that people in the area do not get moved out of their own homes. This documentary that chronicles his life is far more shocking than it may seem. Zed Nelson has been living in Hackney, one of the heartlands of London, for years and decided to turn his camera towards Hoxton Street which bore witness to the East End of London turning into a global gentrification hotspot.
He captured the end of the British pub culture with its greasy meat pies that for centuries survived in the area before it was remodeled into cozy gastropubs and expensive art galleries that promised the real estate businesses large profits.
The launderette is no more, the carpet shop is on its last legs. Locals who remain shake their heads and say, “yuppies.” After 150 years, the baker’s shuts. A media company comes in with a bath full of rubber balls for its employees to sit in to think outside the box or is that the ball?
Colleen, now 82 years old has lived in this area for the entire span of her life. Errol the mechanic who’s been around the place for donkey years says that he has about three or four property developers a month knocking on his door with the hope of purchasing his garage. T
he film shows the other side of the coin with the unsavory process of gentrification that as much as new people enjoy moving into such a “rough” neighborhood, the existing population does not necessarily reap any of the benefits. “I feel like an outcast,” a teenage girl says about when she stepped into a posh coffee shop. It is “us” versus “them”.
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