I have never seen anything quite like it. The reality of that life is made pretty clear and you get the feeling that you are there first hand as the documentary develops, really opened my eyes on a lot of points I had just read about before.
You can tell that this was the first film for the film makers, however it was very well produced and the editing possible was so rude as to convey the crudeness of the subject and conditions of that life. I think this piece is just as good as anything out there in the documentary genre.
I think that a follow up piece needs to be done as the topic is so huge and changing, there is much more I would want to learn about what is going in with the gang problem in terms of what is being done to curtail it, and what impact is all of this having on the minds of the children who live in these areas.