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Children of the Pyre

Children of the Pyre (2008)

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Near the shores of the River Ganges in Northeast India is Manikarnika, an open-air crematorium where people bring the bodies of their loved ones to be reduced to ashes. Burning the corpses is dangerous and strenuous work, and shockingly most of it is done by children; born into families on the wrong side of India's caste system, these youngsters keep the fires burning, fetch body parts that go astray, recover funeral shrouds and keep the pyres swept out so more bodies can be moved in. The work

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As a former documentary filmmaker, I found this film honest and well-made. It was confusing though and the boys' lives lacked complete context. Even a director's paragraph written in type at the beginning to explain that the bodies come from all over India, that families bring their own firewood, why shrouds are sacred, that the young boys are orphans or have families, (where are the girls, I often wondered) - all these early questions kept me from truly connecting with the film. The story needs to be told, and my heart breaks for children in this life. I just wish the filmmakers had given us some deeper context before telling this gripping story.
December 30, 2012
Kellianne
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  • Children of the Prye (DE)
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