This is the hardest-to-watch film I've ever seen. I kept looking for some glimpse of fresh air throughout -- there was none. More devastating was watching these young boys and men spending their youth in such a hell. There must be some kind of international legal body than can intervene to stop such inhuman treatment of these workers.
The photography and direction was exceptional -- taking us into this suffocating workplace where people are subject to long exhausting hours in filthy conditions for meager wages that keep them enslaved to this tortuous life. I've never seen anything quite like this. I've seen news of manufacturing plants in India and elsewhere so poorly constructed that they crumble and cause many deaths because of non-existent building codes and fire escapes.
Surely the owners of these hellish workplaces are guilty of many crimes including exploiting young boys to do this awful work. How are these slave masters not held to account for their brutal treatment of these people? Doesn't India care at all about its people and their welfare?
