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 Good but not great. I think they did a good job in covering the very basics, but unfortunately never get much deeper than that.
Still, as others hav ... | Good but not great. I think they did a good job in covering the very basics, but unfortunately never get much deeper than that.
Still, as others have mentioned, documentaries like this are important because they help to give a human face to the person on the other end of the line, something that is all too easy to forget sometimes.
I'm very far from being an expert on the topic of outsourcing, but am likely not the only one here who has both had friends layed off as jobs moved overseas and ultimately gained many new friends in India and other countries. I've also had the good fortune to travel to India several times now to work directly with my colleaguesthere.
What I can say, is that India is modernizing incredibly fast. My visits were only a year apart, yet even in that short amount of time the number of new stores, malls, movie theaters and restaurants that had opened was almost startling. Infrastructure is still a huge problem, though it is getting better. Cell phones, for example, have helped to solve the otherwise impossible problem of getting phone and internet service.
While this is all very good, it makes me curious as to how much longer the current boom will be sustainable however. As more of these high priced stores, etc open, and the higher the housing rentals go, the higher the salaries demanded are going. Combine this with the falling dollar, and the cost of labor is absolutely skyrocketing. In addition, the turnover rates at most companies in India is incredibly high.
To address Aakash's earlier comment, I wonder much longer until those in India join us in complaining about jobs being "stolen"... (honestly probably not too soon, but more than a few developing countries are starting to work very hard to become the next "India".) |
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 Wow. I just finished watching this movie, and it's hard to find words. There are so many things to love about this movie.
I think most others have ... | Wow. I just finished watching this movie, and it's hard to find words. There are so many things to love about this movie.
I think most others have already commented sufficiently on the core topic of widely unknown mass killings from the not so distant past, so I'll avoid touching that.
Other topics in the background include the severe disparity in the distribution of wealth in the country. While one family sips drinks in a country club atmosphere, others not so far away pump a water well by hand. The backdrops themselves become additional characters in the movie. This is perhaps not so important for those intimately familiar with thecountry, but for outsiders it is immensely important.
Corruption in the government is also not shied away from. This includes calling out each successive group of elected politicians for absolving, or at least ignoring, the travesties of the group before it.
But truly the reason to watch is for the characters themselves. Not just the major players, who are all excellent (especially Konkana for pulling off an excellent American accent), but also the bit players. The grandmother, for example, has few lines but she steals the few scenes she is in.
Overall, an excellent movie and highly recommended. I also recommend checking out the movie website, http://www.amudvd.com for some additional insights, such as which scenes were censored in India and how the director chose to accomodate that censorship. |
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