Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Jackson Booth-Millard I was always curious to see the documentary film that beat Super Size Me during Awards Season, I read more about this Indian-American film, and it did sound like something that could be either fascinating or uncomfortable and shocking viewing, either way I was interested to watch it. Basically it is about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, India's largest red light district, in Kolkata, aka Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal. Documentary photographer Zana Briski went to Calcutta to photograph the prostitutes, while there she befriended the children and offered to teach them photography. The children were given cameras, so they could learn photography and perhaps improve their lives, their photographs depicted the harsh daily lives for children in the red light district. The children's work was exhibited, with one boy sent to a photography conference in Amsterdam, and Briski also recorded their efforts to get into boarding schools. However, many did not stay in the schools they were placed in, for various reasons, with the exceptions of Avijit and Kochi, who went on with their education, and were graded well. It is obviously poignant, to see an underworld life in a child's eyes, especially for ones born into brothels, and especially their photographs depicting the streets and people around them. To be honest, I found the elderly woman using highly offensive language towards the children, to do their chores, more disturbing, the children are vibrant characters, they may be living in difficult situations, but they embark on transformational journeys, overall it is an interesting documentary. It won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Good!

vorlac the ones left in this film are as follows;"the son of a sex worker is avijit, a little fat living in India, he's an emotional and fragile boy, he's got a poison-like mind, allah's ability to pay taxes, he can take very good pictures, he just prints the shutter, and the rest is spontaneous. It's a photo machine gun, and as we touch the trigger, there's an idea about how people live, about the most sad ...the children of Calcutta, the puppets of life ... in the presence of pity they can create a feast for you or thank you. the capital of western Bengal in India. I think that the most important port of India is here because she is a life-lady too. I do not know what you understand from the word of the poor. I would argue that these people are really poor.Brisbane's ... someone who has done something sacred. even a single child has a tiny positive influence on your life, the world always changes. briski has done it. so my idol gap can fill up. He goes to Calcutta to live in the brothels and go to take pictures first. After the kids start giving them photo shoots. These guys are the children of sex workers. each one has a separate story, which is certainly tragic. avijit's mother, for example; Killed in the kitchen by the vendor. I think she's blowing up. These children who live in the brothel know very well what they expect in the future. girls are candidates to be prostitutes, men are ...One of the black-eyed girls says, "We tell everything so easily, we get it right now" about briski. the photo course is turning into a battle for life saving soon. she starts to look for a boarding school that will accept children. some of them have left a miracle bomb with a tiny touch on their life. remember the days you changed the way your toy train was going on its way around the track, so that's what briski is doing. Children change course.Avijit that your mother consoled me one day to send you to London to read; "Stop reading, we do not even have enough money to live," he says. and then finds himself in a photo exhibition in Amsterdam. Watch this movie to see the little miracles in the story. and then you wish to cause a little miracle. "

SnoopyStyle Photographer Zana Briski wants to take pictures of the red light district in Calcutta. She finds resistance from the locals but she befriends several of the kids. She gives them cameras and let them take the pictures. The kids struggle with their family's troubles. The girls face pressure to join "in the line". Avijit is a cocky boy with anger issues. The kids call her Zana Auntie. She struggles through the bureaucratic labyrinth to get the kids their birth certificates, rations, and ultimately an education. Meanwhile, the pictures are sold in western charities to raise funds for the kids.Ultimately, the question is raised if the kids are being helped. I hope the answer is positive. At least, some of them end up going to school. As a documentary, the kids' family drama could be highlighted more. This ends up concentrating more on the pictures. It would be helpful to do a good length of exposition on each child and their family background. Each kid and family should have at least five minutes. Zana seems to be more driven to take the kids on field trips and photographic sessions while pushing the ultimate goal of school. The family drama is normally the main course for a documentary but she's not that kind of a filmmaker. That's not to say the photographs aren't important. It's a good device to get at the issues but it shouldn't be the issue itself.

gavin6942 Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.While this is not necessarily the best documentary I have ever seen, or even on a subject I particularly care about, I must say it is a shocking subject matter that few are aware of. Prostitution has its supporters and detractors, but the conditions in Calcutta are awful and it is no place for children to be growing up if their mothers are prostitutes.This is everything that is wrong with prostitution. Maybe if done right, in Nevada or the Netherlands, it is a necessary evil. But in India it appears to just be an evil, no necessity about it.