Every once in awhile we’re all touched by certain movies that really emotionally move us. When I was recently browsing through AppleTV’s documentary section, I came across Craigslist Joe. Naturally the name alone made me want to check it out, plus Zach Galifiankis is the executive producer and one of my favorite actors. The movie doesn’t have anything to do with fashion, what I typically write about, but it does in fact have something to do with technology and whether or not technology has isolated us into a our own social bubbles or does society still have a sense of community?

In a time when America has suffered one of the worst economic downturns in decades, Joseph Garner sets out on a month long journey with with only a laptop, a new cellphone, a toothbrush, no cash or contacts and the clothes on his back to see if he could survive solely off the generosity of others. Joe’s adventure begins in Santa Monica, California and takes him as far east as New York City, as far south as New Orleans and then back to California with multiple stops along the way. The people Joe meets along the way include a dominatrix, a little-known character actress battling cancer, an Iraqi family whose warmth and generosity could warm any curmudgeon heart.

The only disappointment I found in it was when Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist finds out about Joe’s experiment and asks him to visit him in San Francisco. The interview Joe has with Craig is dull and well, for lack of a better description, uninspiring. Newmark seems more interested in telling his story of how he started Craigslist rather than discussing Joe’s experiment. It seemed pointless. The actually Craigslist people Joe met along the way were much more colorful and interesting than Newmark.

But check out the trailer below and judge for yourself. Personally the movie left me with the sense that there is still hope for a sense of community in society and that we all can help each other out where we need to even if it’s a simple gesture, a self-less act of kindness or just a sense of being there for each other.