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Born Into Brothels Rhetorical Analysis
This information alone makes for a truly different outlook for the movie. It took all the negative and focused only on that. Zana Briski in documentary even states that the children lives are “doomed” if they do not get away from their homes. Yet there were already this was truly an unethical and slightly immoral to show only the negative part of what happened in red light district; to not even mention the things that people had been doing to make it better. I believe it can be said that Born into Brothels is a powerful film in its ability to tug at the heartstrings of its viewers. To the extent it suggests that the only solutions lie in individual outsiders rescuing individual children, it presents a misleading story and indeed an unnecessarily

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