Children Underground
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Movie Reviews of Children Underground
Movie Review: Suki
Summary: 5 Stars
I just want to start off by saying I have seen many documents in my time but none as compelling as this one. I felt so sad and angry at the same time watching this video. The children in the documentary seem so feral and yet so innocent at the same time, it's a strange feeling that overcomes you when you watch this film. Children of course should never live in these conditions right, however some choose to stay on the streets it is as though they are addicted to the freedom, drama and the pain. I couldn't watch, yet, I couldn't look away. It's so sad.Movie Review: Nausiating
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never seen anything like what is contained in this documentary. I am forever changed. I bought the DVD to be enlightened about "whatever it was" the film was about; I never thought it would have affected me the way it did. It can not be stated enough how imperative it is that people see this film.Movie Review: Disturbing, Moving and Heartbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary is wonderfully made. It is dark and moving and shows the plight of these children like nothing else I have come across. Please share this with your friends, family and organizations to help spread the word about these children.Movie Review: A Top Ten Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone has her/his own personal list of Top Ten films of all time. Before yours gets written in stone, watch this film first. You will revise your list to include this film.Movie Review: Street Kids Of Romania
Summary: 4 Stars
Ana, Mihai, Cristina, Macarena and others are a loosely aligned group of street kids who sleep on cardboard mats in the subway station. Some ran away from abusive parents while others grew up in orphanages. But they have come together in a sort of urban "Lord Of The Flies" scenario, where violence, paint sniffing and begging for handouts makes up the daily routine.
A few Romanian social workers and sympathetic foreigners try to help the kids get an education and find housing. But their well intentioned efforts are overwhelmed by a poor society scant on resources and mean spirited, selfish parents who seem to prefer their children living on the streets - one less mouth to feed after all.
Of course, street kids are a world wide issue, especially in Third World countries with underdeveloped social welfare systems. But the problem seems especially bad in Romania, where the anti-birth control policy of former dictator Ceaucescu has created a generation of unwanted chidren. I would have liked to see a little more attention given to how this idiotic policy caused such negative consequences. But the approach of director Edet Belzberg, to show the daily struggles of these kids in an up close and personal way, is certainly emotionally compelling.