abhishek deshwal

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It's a documentary about the orphans of Romania who were literally thrown out on the streets once Romania became independent. A self-appointed guardian named 'Bruce lee' takes care of these kids, giving them shelter inside an underground bunker. The orphans are all addicted to an intoxicant inhaled from plastic bags and sometimes injecting heroin sharing needles. Bruce lee doesn't stop them as he himself seems to be an addict, despite his closest kids suffering from TB and HIV. An angel like woman tries to save one of the kids under his 'care', who calls Bruce Lee daddy, just like other kids do. It's a really heartbreaking story of how orphans end up having no future because of their poverty coupled with drug addiction. Happiness is just doing drugs with family like friends and eventually dying young.

If you loved 'The shining'. If you felt that Shutter Island, though brilliant, by the end of it, turned out to be popular fiction. If you believe that the mind has greater horrors hidden inside than any sinisiter supernatural being. If you love Robert Pattinson. If you don't. If you believe shooting in black and white adds a very specific darkness to a sunless, desolate location. Or If you simply love brilliant storytelling. This is the movie for you.

A movie that's not easy to watch. Yet, you would want to keep going. It's like all the ugliness of the world, all the filth in human beings, the most deplorable acts are yours to deal with. That's what being a part of the child protection unit must feel like. They are regular people like you and me but what they need to do is to name an aborted baby of rape victim, so that the death certificate can be issued. Save an eight months old from a drug addict mother. Explain it to a little boy that the coach who sexually abused him did not really love him. And then hear him say 'Don't let him go to jail. I love him'. These stories of crimes against the most innocent beings of society just doesn't end. Just when you think it's the last one and the movie has gone back to sometimes sweet and at times difficult relationship between the team mates, you jolted back to attention with another one. You experience not just the breaking point of your faith in a nice beautiful world but also that of the protagonists. Some of them them deal with it in their own way, letting it out through often violent outbursts, some just give up. And the sad part is you don't feel like blaming the ones who give up after witnessing the worst face of society. You just feel like staying quiet and staring at the wall once the movie ends.