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Another White Angst Movie


Indian Orphan given every opportunity, surrounded by love and resources in a society that allows him to be free and succeed in every level thanks to his WHITE loving well-off family that gives him every opportunity. Now Indian orphan, due to being overloaded with money and understanding and love, has existential angst whereby he has to find his "roots" in India and talk dramatically about how absolutely beautiful his real, biological, Indian mom is while coming to loathe the white family that obsessively loved him. It's just ridiculous. It's never ending with this drivel. And yes, these movies are becoming more and more common. We get the message: being white and affluent is bad whereas living in squalor in a corrupt society that has a caste system and filth everywhere is beautiful. Imagine this same movie but it's about an Irish white boy who was adopted and then had to find his real family in Ireland. It would NEVER get made- even if the story was exactly the same. It's all about being brown I guess. Yawn

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Now, don't get upset. But technically, it totally could've been made with the Irish.
It's like a Jungle Book with Mowgli. Except he never wanted to go to humans, even knowing he's one of them.
But in this *beep* diverse, politically correct, liberal world they give you these ideas, that essentially put crap in your head. The reality is simpler. Harsh and simple. Nobody wants to hear, or see it. :) That's why such movies are made, I guess. Don't think...watch and sob.

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Yeah, it's called reverse racism. It's very popular these days, thanks to illegal immigrants flooding the west.

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The OP has obviously not seen the film since it's not about racism or reverse racism. And no, he does not loathe his foster parents once he finds his biological mom or before. On the contrary. Silly posting.

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There's no such thing as reverse racism. There's only racism. White people don't get a special term for racism against them. That would be racist. You get the same term as the rest.

P.S.: Net immigration is down. There's also other non-white countries besides Mexico (a country which doesn't really produce people openly hostile to whites). There are plenty of people who immigrated to the U.S. from Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Asia... but they had to have resources to get here.

And when you round up the illegals, I hope you remember to get the Irish, Russian and other white illegals who stayed past their visa dates.

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It doesn't matter how much money/love you throw on a child. They will always long for their true parentage/roots. His roots should not be put in parenthesis as if its questionable. The child didn't ask to be a tool to feed into your desire to feel better about yourself for being a white savior though its probably the case that the parents in the film don't view this child as a set piece in their political struggle against political correctness, which is why they're more honorable than you who merely see the child's natural youthful growing pains as a distraction to your desire to remain willifully ingnorant in your self-centered view of the world.

Lastly, if I spent all my time hearing you complain about a movie you misinterpret as the biggest problem in life (a sign of your out-of-touch over-privileged perspective), then I would be a little hostile to you as well. Your post was a yawn. You'd be more respectable to just say you think you're superior to others. There would be more honesty in this than this pretentious nonsense.

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Did you even watch this movie?? At NO point did he express or feel any resentment WHATSOEVER, much less loathing, towards his adopted family. In fact, throughout the film, he expressed how grateful he was to them, especially his mom. Even after finding his birth mother, he tells his parents that they are his family, and doesn't want them to feel like they are being replaced.


It's normal for someone to want to find out their roots and where they're from. Wouldn't you, if you had been adopted by, say, a well-to-do Indian family?

The real Saroo Brierley, in the interviews I've seen and read about him, also comes across as very, very loving and grateful for his adopted parents and the life and opportunities they provided him with in Australia. He has repeatedly said that once he realized (at age 5-6ish) that he wasn't going to find his way back home, he realized that he had been given a great opportunity by his adopted parents, and he wanted to be a good son to them and make them proud.

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This is the stupidest thing I've read on IMDb till date.

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So you missed the part where this all actually happened right? Maybe you should read the book it's based on.

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Oh PUH-lease! Not the RACE card! I am so friggin' sick of the damn race card! Get over yourself!







Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

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"Living in squalor in a corrupt society that has a caste system and filth everywhere" -- and you are calling other people racist. Clearly you have no idea about India other than the racist and colonial trash put out by other like-minded people like yours. The filth is in your mind and in your eyes.

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