Government
Finding Common Ground in the Subways of the World
Life Underground filmmaker Hervé Cohen travels to more than a dozen cities looking for the most powerful stories from commuters.
The silence inside a subway car can be deafening as riders fixate their gaze on their phones, out the window, into blank space—on basically anything but their fellow passengers. Small talk isn’t always welcomed (even if some urban dwellers are secretly begging for some kind of “genuine connection”).