Born Into Brothels

Finally got to see this film I've been meaning to check out. It's quite an interesting film from a "making a documentary" standpoint. The first half is quite poor storytelling...the only thing that moves the narrative is interviews and music montage sequences. Then, all of a sudden, the movie takes off - they are at the beach, they are selling their pictures at an auction, they are waxing philosophical, they are trying to get into school, to attend an artist conference in Amsterdam, all of a sudden all these things happen and it's active and fascinating.

I do find it hard to believe this won best documentary, but there are some great moments and two great characters - the talented kid and the only child girl.

It does make you wonder - does anything we do matter? Typical American nihilism...