... the men who are taking children at the train station. A guard/cop(?) is standing by the exit and lets SAROO gets away. Why?
shareMy only guess was he was not a cop, but maybe an employee of the train station? It wasn't his problem so he let him pass.
shareThat was one of the few moments that took me out of it completely (the other one being the orphans singing the song in unison...). They were trying to say the police does nothing.
So, a few times the director got a bit carried away and laid things a little to thick. Still a great movie.
Both scenes reminded me of "Slumdog millionaire". The song the orpans sang to beg for money.. and the police helping the bad guy, gets these orphans. That's the first thing that pooped in my head.
shareI thought the guard/cop didn't react because the men taking the children were helping him clear out the train station, like allowing cats to come in and clear out the rats. He also might have been bribed by these kidnappers.
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I didn't, but in many articles I read or searches on this film I had done in recent days, I remember one which mentions which organization it was... I can't remember, but if I find the link as one of which I shared on my FB page, I will come back here & let you know!
shareIt's 80,000
shareHe was probably paid off to not do anything to protect the kids.
You can't be more horrific than life itself. - Francis Bacon
I meant that, since he was obviously corrupt, he should've stopped him from getting away, right?
shareYes, he was corrupt, but his deal was probably just to look the other way. He wasn't an active member of the child snatchers. His demeanour smoking the cigarette says it all - it's not his concern, one way or the other. He probably doesn't really want to know what happens to the kids any more than the rest of us.
You can't be more horrific than life itself. - Francis Bacon
Were they taking the kids to child prostitution?
sharePossibly. Or child slavery. Or organ farming.
Sometimes, in India, children are purposely maimed, disfigured, blinded, or dismembered in order to make them more effective beggars for a ringleader.
In any case, the fates of the children who had been captured wasn't likely to be good.
You can't be more horrific than life itself. - Francis Bacon
I read somewhere that it didn't really happen like that exactly, in reality, a police officer found Saroo and told him to come with him, he did, but then he went to speak to another man, and they didn't seem to be talking about helping him, Saroo got suspicious and ran away. I read that they turned that real event into two different events in the movie, the children being kidnapped and the part where Saroo almost gets taken by what seemed like a pedophile, or at least someone working for pedophiles.
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