The eponymous street vendor can barely be three foot tall, but he has cleverly built and adapted an whole range of equipment to enable him to get about his small Kansas town - even building a pulley system to get aboard his tractor that gets him to and from his home. By day, he finds a space in the shade and sells pencils from a small cart to passing pedestrians eking out a living with his small pile of coins by his side. It's a curious documentary in that it makes no effort to actually speak to the man himself. The latter half of the documentary follows some of his day's activities - and his use of his intricately devised engineering, but I found myself wanting to hear from him to put some meat on the bones of this film I felt a little uncomfortable watching. The narration rather dryly gives us the facts and statistics, though, and it's an affecting observation of a way of life that shows a man of determination amidst a society that seems entirely, if politely, indifferent to him.
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Inspiring story
judydiane-lindsay22511 August 2018
I showed this movie to my high school students when I had a unit in my class on handicaps. We all, even the boys, were moved to tears and so impressed with the spirit of the man and his desire to rise above his disabilities.
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