Caine’s Arcade – Heartwarming Video

This is amazing. No but it really is. It actually gives me faith in humanity again and for once I don’t share Bender’s vision of killing all humans.

This amazing short film tells the story of 9 year old Caine Monroy, who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store in East LA. The film by Nirvan documents Caine’s Arcade and their attempt at making this boy’s dream come true by orchestrating a flashmob to join in all the fun and play his games.

This is a great watch. Check it out.

Synopsis:

Caine Monroy is a 9-year old boy who spent his summer vacation building an elaborate DIY cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store.

Caine dreamed of the day he would have lots of customers visit his arcade, and he spent months preparing everything, perfecting the game design, making displays for the prizes, designing elaborate security systems, and hand labeling paper-lunch-gift-bags. However, his dad’s autoparts store (located in an industrial part of East LA) gets almost zero foot traffic, so Caine’s chances of getting a customer were very small, and the few walk in customers that came through were always in too much of a hurry to get their auto part to play Caine’s Arcade. But Caine never gave up.

One day, by chance, I walked into Smart Parts Auto looking for a used door handle for my ’96 Corolla. What I found was an elaborate handmade cardboard arcade manned by a young boy who asked if I would like to play. I asked Caine how it worked and he told me that for $1 I could get two turns, or for $2 I could get a Fun Pass with 500 turns. I got the Fun Pass.

Help Caine’s Scholarship Fund:
cainesarcade.com

Caine’s Arcade Online:
facebook.com/cainesarcade
twitter.com/cainesarcade

Credits:
Directed by Nirvan
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Source: Vimeo