Wanna watch a movie during Thanksgiving that will give you and your family plenty to talk about while making each of you thankful for more than turkey? If so, I recommend you substitute either Boys of Baraka or Born Into Brothels [Click either graphic for more info] for one of the football games you would normally watch in a dietary coma.Baraka is about a group of 12-year-old African American boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland that willingly travel 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya to try to take advantage of the educational opportunities they can't get in their own country.
Brothels is about a photo journalist who gives the children of prostitutes in India's red light district 35mm cameras to take pictures of the world they live in. Without sugarcoating the environment [or showing any "National GeoGRAPHIC" pics], the children excel in their new found art while the journalist struggles to help them have a chance for a better life away from the miserable poverty that threatens to crush their dreams.
2 comments:
Both of those documentaries are excellent. I personally thought "Born Into Brothels" was a more powerful story and documentary but both are worth watching. Very challenging and inspirational.
I agree! Both are excellent! I'd add your previously mentioned documentary to this list..."God Grew Tired of Us" is another inspiring testimony to the power of human spirit to survive under the most extreme hardships. Two thumbs way up!
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