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I watched "Born into Brothels" last night. Despite my last post about hating kids, documentaries about kids seem to have the unusual quality of making me blubber like a baby. Seriously. Children of Leningradsky? Will fuck you up. There were about four of us who had to leave the classroom after and deal with our puffy, mucus-y crying faces. That movie alone planted the social work seed in my brain.
Anyways. Born Into Brothels was about a bunch of kids in Calcutta living in the red light districts with their prostitute mothers. The woman making the documentary originally went to document the mothers, but decided to switch gears and focus on the kids instead. She gave them all cameras and photography lessons, then launched a huge campaign in the US to sell the photographs for enough dough to send the kids to a boarding school. One in particular, Avagit, was ridiculously talented.
The part that slayed me was right at the end, when they throw in, "oh yeah. After all that, practically all the parents pulled the kids out of the schools so they could become child prostitutes. Cool, yeah?"
I KNOW this is kinda ridiculous after my last I-hate-kids post. It's kinda a paradox with me. I really can't stand them, yet I want to get into social work with them and I volunteer with them like crazy. I really can't fucking stand kids, but I feel very passionately about a kid's right to be a kid. It's weird.
Anyways. Watch those documentaries. With kleenex.
Anyways. Born Into Brothels was about a bunch of kids in Calcutta living in the red light districts with their prostitute mothers. The woman making the documentary originally went to document the mothers, but decided to switch gears and focus on the kids instead. She gave them all cameras and photography lessons, then launched a huge campaign in the US to sell the photographs for enough dough to send the kids to a boarding school. One in particular, Avagit, was ridiculously talented.
The part that slayed me was right at the end, when they throw in, "oh yeah. After all that, practically all the parents pulled the kids out of the schools so they could become child prostitutes. Cool, yeah?"
I KNOW this is kinda ridiculous after my last I-hate-kids post. It's kinda a paradox with me. I really can't stand them, yet I want to get into social work with them and I volunteer with them like crazy. I really can't fucking stand kids, but I feel very passionately about a kid's right to be a kid. It's weird.
Anyways. Watch those documentaries. With kleenex.