Documentary "Born into Brothels"
After watching this year's Oscar-winning Best Picture "Slumdog Millionaire", I also watched the 77th Academy Award-winning film "Born into Brothels". The former is a movie that swept this year's Oscars, and after watching it, I thought it was pretty good. Later, I found out that another movie about India also won an award, which was "Born into Brothels". Both are stories about ordinary people living at the bottom of society in India, but the former is a feature film while the latter is a documentary. I still think reality is the most interesting to watch, so the one that left a deep impression on me is definitely "Born into Brothels".
"Born into Brothels" is a documentary released in 2004 and won the 77th (2005) Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The full title of the film is "Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids", and another Chinese translation is "The Fantastic World of Little Photographers". The film is about children of prostitutes (Avijit, Manik, Puja, Shanti, Gour, Tapasi, Suchitra, Kochi) in Sonagachi, a red-light district in Kolkata, India, who use cameras provided by Zana Briski to document their own lives. Director Zana Briski originally intended to make a documentary about the red-light district, during which she met these children born in the red-light district. Many of their grandmothers were prostitutes, their mothers are prostitutes, and many of the girls will inevitably follow in their footsteps in the future. One of the main characters, Aivjit, told reporters: "There is nothing called hope in my future." (I have a future without hope). At the same time, Avjit is the most talented photographer among the children and was even invited to attend the World Press Photo Exhibition in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Through Zana Briski's efforts, Avijit finally obtained a passport to go to Amsterdam. [For someone like Aivijit, who was born in a red-light district, getting a passport is almost impossible]. What left a particularly deep impression on me was when Aivjit said to the taxi driver on the way to the airport: "Drive slowly, please, if there's an accident, I won't get there." A child who has always lived in poverty, suffering, and cruel reality had his fate completely changed due to Zana's arrival, yet most of the children in Kolkata's red-light district still live in dark alleys of the red-light district, owning only a similarly dark future...