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This is awareness-raising documentary cinema at its most urgent and necessary.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
His film opens with a lullaby, and while there is indeed something soothing in his images of repetitive, backbreaking toil, the music also serves as a reminder of childhood lost.
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Slant Magazine by Jesse Cataldo
Assembled from short, naturalistic shots of people at work, the documentary becomes a bittersweet testament to labor and a damning representation of a vicious cycle, its images speaking entirely for themselves.
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Toward the end of the film, a few hard-hitting cuts between young and old brings the title's meaning home: These children have an inescapable life of drudgery before them, and there's little likelihood it will change anytime soon.