The literal translation of the title should be "Born in a Brothel: Children in the Red Light District of Kolkata", whichever is the original meaning, has also been translated as a little photographer. Eight children, living in a chaotic and dirty brothel, can only meet drunk men every day looking for women everywhere, no warmth, little care, only money and sex transactions are the beginning of their life chapters, and they are also around them. all of life.
Without the intervention of the photographer, their world should never be changed, as the children in the film say, "We are at the bottom of the country". In the beginning, it was just an exchange of photography classes. After two years of company, the photographer finally decided to intervene to change their destiny in the face of the children's constant help, and the story came to a real climax here.
According to foreigners' documentaries, or scientific and technological investigations, before that, they just observed, with the eyes of Westerners, curiously watching the world recorded by children through cameras. After that, the recorder and the recorded Between them, a connection of destiny has been formed, and the civilization from the West has extended an olive branch to the most rotten and filthiest place in the ancient East.
They took the children to the zoo, looked at the sea, consulted various educational institutions constantly, and went back and forth for the children's schooling. In the Indian education system that does not accept criminal children, they have successfully won the school for the children. , and then through the American photography exhibition, the children's works were brought to the West, and their works became the source of their self-salvation. In the end, what you learn is not photography, but a whole new world of exposure to this skill.
In the film, there is a boy named Aggie, who impresses me. His father is a drug addict, and his prostitute mother eventually dies violently. He has the talent for painting, and even has a certain talent for photography. In this way, children from the lowest strata, with the efforts of documentary filmmakers and photographers, finally stepped onto the international stage and participated in the world press photography as a representative of India. prize.
In the wheel of fate, they were born poor, and in the vision of fate, they pressed the shutter.
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