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| DVD REVIEW : BORN INTO BROTHELS
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Born Into Brothels, produced and directed by Ross Kaufmann and Zana Briski,
is a fascinating documentary that tugs at your heart in a variety of ways. The film won the 2004 Oscar for best documentary and I've been wanting to see it for some time.
It is a portrait of several unforgettable kids who are children of prostitutes in Calcutta's red light district. One of the filmmakers, Zana Briskei, also a photographer, lived among the prostitutes. She became interested in the children and noted "They were everywhere."
It became apparent as the film's story progressed that Briskei's fascination with the numbers of kids in the red light district and their plight transformed her. She decided to teach them photography. They were given their own cameras and became quite adept at photography, even selling their photographs. One child's photograph appeared on the 2005
Amnesty International calendar.
With the money from the sales of the children's photography, the filmmakers set up a trust account and later tried to make sure the children went to boarding school, then college, to ensure better opportunities for the children.
Filmmaker Briskei's main goal was to get the children out of the brothel atmosphere and prevent them from becoming prostitutes from the age of fourteen. Her task was next to impossible and just when it looked like she'd pulled it off, it collapsed. But Briskei was successful in improving a few lives.
The documentary profiled eight children and did not sugar coat anything, but told the story of children being beaten, enduring mental abuse, and working from sun up to sun down. The children saw hope for a better future when they were taught to take photographs.
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Born into Brothels was an example of filmmakers documenting this vast amount of poverty and deciding to chase after doing something about a miniscule slice of it. I was overwhelmed with my admiration for the filmmaker, Briskei. To see her get the recognition for what she has done with an Oscar is great as most never do.
The saddest part of the experience, however, was even with her Herculean effort to give the kids a chance, primarily at a boarding school, just a couple of the eight went. The brothel eventually prevailed. Ignorance, selfishness, and lack of education won out among the prostitutes in Calcutta's red light district over giving their children a life. Very sad. Liz Crosslin
Three parachutes.
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| DVD: Freedomland by Liz Crosslin
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How movies get to be hits and movie stars get nominated for awards, simply amazes me.
In Freedomland,
Samuel L. Jackson, Lorenzo Council, and Julianne Moore, Brenda Martin, deliver two of the best performances I've ever seen. Riveting is not too much hyperbole for this movie.
The movie is a psychological smorgasboard. Moore(Brenda Martin) is a deeply wounded mother who loses perspective when she finds love or attention or sex or whatever and neglects her adorable four year old in her sick haze, almost without knowing it.
Moore represents the struggle and muddled thinking of an underclass, both psychologically, and economically. However, it is all in a thinly disguised veil, wrapped slightly around racial tension which is way overblown and contrived and not nearly as much of the story as it is billed. The trailer for the movie wants the moviegoer to think another Crash. Noway, nothing like it.
Samuel L. Jackson is an insightful cop who is tough, but not hardened by the hard scrabble life on the streets. His insight often carries the movie.
Edie Falco delivers a couple of minor walk-ons, as a woman who organizes searches for missing children, having had her own child missing and murdered. Her performance is very powerful and she is a knockout with dark hair.
Freedomland is a weird title, at least to me. Something like "Wounded" or "Troubled" would have been better. When anybody sees these two actors billed in a movie, they simply should see it, if they have any moxie. I will.
How this movie and mainly these performances slip under the radar screen amazes me. It could have been timing, who knows, but these performances in Freedomland are worthy of a good look-see.
Three parachutes.
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