When I was a child, I read two books, one is "The Kite Runner" and the other is "Slumdog Millionaire". Then I was especially afraid of India as a country. That was all 15 years ago.
I think I should never set foot on that land.
Later, thanks to Aamir Khan, his films (such as "Wrestle Dad") made me see another side of India. They have lives, colors, and goals, just like people in every country in the world.
However, my hobby (discovering the world with my Leica Q2) led me to follow a series of photography-related films, including a 2004 documentary, The Whimsical World of a Little Photographer. Please don't be fooled by the smiling faces of the children on the poster, and don't run away for this warm and healing title.
Because it's a documentary, I don't have to doubt its authenticity; it's standing right in front of me. There is no step-by-step, articulate. Every shot hit my brain nerves, causing me to spend the whole night in deep sadness and entanglement, but I couldn't bear to pause for even a minute.
I don't know what families in other countries look like in red light districts, or how the children of those families live, or whether they know the occupational nature of their mothers. Or rather, I never thought about it that way. Because I can't imagine that the child will know that his mother is JN from the moment he knows the world, and he will follow the path of JN soon. In India, children in red light districts have no future, no chance, they know it and they know they have no hope.
It was such a life. From the moment of birth, he has entered hell; from the moment of hope, he is always left to despair. until confession.
Thanks to the person who gave them the camera (that is, the director himself Zana), the children have dreams for this; to criticize the person who gave them the camera, will the children become more desperate from now on.
So sad, I really want to know how they are doing now. At the end of the film, some of the children's mothers are still brought home, and it is conceivable that her future can only be black; some children stay in the boarding school to continue their studies, Zana must be very pleased; some children (such as Aggie ) back to India to continue studying, maybe in the future will really "come out".
This poster, this title, is good, really.
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