Reviews

OK

i agree: it has several minutes with quite interesting/good ambient. Good photography, screenplay, actors, and so on. quite fascinating music, camera movement, and so on.

mmm... tried to figure out how it would be without all that MONEY, without these fantastic actors, beautiful colors, music...

and got nothing. Nothing at all.

But, sure, you could do a really astonishing preview. all the rest... pretentious, naive...

Enjoy...

OK

i agree: it has several minutes with quite interesting/good ambient. Good photography, screenplay, actors, and so on. quite fascinating music, camera movement, and so on.

mmm... tried to figure out how it would be without all that MONEY, without these fantastic actors, beautiful colors, music...

and got nothing. Nothing at all.

But, sure, you could do a really astonishing preview. all the rest... pretentious, naive...

Enjoy...

Feel very disappointed and quite angry about what I saw: we get no information at all but the outsider's ethnocentrism effort to make good stuff with a carefully construction of "Otherness", "poverty" and, of course "India". How about the general context, the structural mechanisms of social exclusion and exploitation??? How about the children's voices? Where are they? I only can heard the mute voice of a children completely admonished to tell about the adult-western wishes.Nothing to say about the "story" what is been writing for them.... (without them). Where are the children's stakeholders in Calcuta? They are "left" only with this women's help and hopes? Reflexivity and postmodernism are not this. Out there we can get arguments, multiplicity of voices, pathways of power and counter-power, history, ethnostories... but, of course, it is required some conceptual tools - say anthropology -, methodological gadgets and a clear philosophy or philosophical points of reference to start with. Instead we only see philanthropy - a lot of - and a cool project, for cool people with cool intentions, liberal and western intentions... And the world does not stop turning... you feel me?