When the film ended with "I would like to pay tribute to all women and children in the red light district", the whole The audience in the screening hall applauded spontaneously, and did not get up for a long time.
Light and darkness always coexist.
What exactly is the red light district in Kolkata, India? Swarms of mice roamed, pots and pans piled up with dirt and shoes on the ground, cramped and depressing messy small rooms, quarrels and insults from clients, and beautifully dressed women standing at the door of the block...
That is, in this red light district, there are also such a group of precocious and distressing children.
She works eight hours a day. The thin arms scrubbed the unclean tableware with force, fetching water and mopping the floor.
She said that kite flying is best at dusk. She would fly kites on the rooftop with her younger brother, and every time she flew a kite, it was her mother's "work" time. Under her lens, I discovered for the first time that the evening sky can be so beautiful.
He loves to paint, he said he put his soul in the color. He is a very artistically gifted child. The narrow and crowded streets were photographed with such aura.
He said: "My life is hopeless. His mother, who was smiling peacefully in his arms under the camera, was finally burned to death by the client in the kitchen. The truth is that the police won't handle this.
She has no parents and lives in fear every day. Because she understands that her aunt is waiting for her to grow up quickly and become her cash cow.
She was almost sold by her father, if not for her sister's insistence.
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Such a group of children live under the contempt of others all day long; no school is willing to admit them to their education, just because they are children in the red light district; there is no fairness in them, because it is worthless.
These eight children are just a microcosm of all the children living in that red light district. She (he) lives tenaciously, and their hearts are full of dreams. It's just that they saw the helplessness of life and the cruelty of reality earlier.
They will not know what is a SLR, what is a card machine. But at the moment the simplest film machine in her (he) hands is all they have. The camera is inseparable from them, held tightly even in their sleep.
The moment of pressing the shutter again and again is the most direct interpretation of her (his) mind and the world. There is no darkness, there is just that simple little happiness. Unintentional composition and casual shooting, which is precisely why I see in these pictures that the world in the eyes of those children is not gray, but colorful...
For "Little Photographer" There is such a sentence in the evaluation of "The Whimsical World": "The sadness of life is not through ups and downs, but after struggling hard to find that the fate is already doomed."
Sometimes we all say that when God closes a door for you, there will be Open another window for you. But with so many windows waiting to be opened in this world, will God remember them all?
The red light district under the director's lens, the life experiences of these children, are only part of the current state of the world. It's here to stay, and it's not going to change anything because of a successful documentary, because of the pity of all viewers.
There are too many children like this who are experiencing poverty, artillery, war, disease, and all the hardships that are unimaginable to ordinary people. Our helplessness, our sadness is that because we understand, because we understand, we feel more insignificant and unable to change anything.
If you can't change your destiny, then please live well and try to cherish what you have now.
As I walked out of the theater door, the Jewish proverb came to my mind, "When man thinks, God laughs."
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