Thoughts on the documentary _Born Into Brothels_?
The thing’s advertised as “Uplifting!”, “Inspiring!”, “A remarkable and moving story about the power of art to transform lives.” I thought it was tragic. Only two of the nine children remained in school by movie’s end; most of their parents pulled them out. (Why would the parents do that? It didn’t seem like any of them was so miserable they couldn’t sacrifice one child’s work and/or wages so s/he could go to school instead.) One child’s mother was set on fire by her pimp and burned to death.
Yes, the photography was a wonderful experience, but … these kids are still going to be prostitutes and drug-addicted fathers. It’s a bit like giving a person hope, then standing back to watch the society inevitably dash it to pieces again, like we know it will. Where’s the critique here? Who’s working to change _the society_?
I find it to be rather biased portraying a country like India, Calcutta. Although the country is developing and fast poverty is still rampant and out of control for a country that has an industry. Beeing born into a brothel isnt even the worst fate if you are on the bottom of the social latter you literally starf to death. If we were to see a German brothel the footage would be vastly different.
The people in the movie do not suffer because they are born into brothels, but because they are born into a poor country that although not beeing one of the poorest ones and like I said a rising country manages its poverty problem poorly or not at all. It would have defenitly benifitted from communism granted it is temporary on its road to capitalism, similiar to china where the situation would be probably even worse if communism was overturned today. Time will show if Chinas considerabel but held back by communism progress will turn out to be better over time than Indias no prisoneers road to capitalism. The people that care about here and now would certainly profit more from chinas approach at least on the lower end of the social ladder.
It is only for sure that in both China and India The population needs to go back in order to permit EVERYBODY in the population to lead a dignified life in a capitalistic setting. If Americas population were to grow into the excess of one billion the ones working at Burger King would be the middle class and hundreds of millions would have nothing to eat.
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