{"id":121961,"date":"2013-04-28T04:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=121961"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T21:15:32","slug":"the-revolutionary-optimists-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/04\/28\/the-revolutionary-optimists-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolutionary Optimists Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: The Revolutionary Optimists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directors: Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfolding in the urban slums of India, documentary &#8220;The Revolutionary\u00a0Optimists&#8221; attacks the notion that where one is born should alone determine their prospects for health and happiness. If Whitney Houston&#8217;s soaring voice once awakened a\u00a0populace to the notion that children are our future, &#8220;The Revolutionary Optimists&#8221; again highlights the fact that the best chances for change lie not in the simple rescue of adolescents, but in empowering them to become agents of change.<\/p>\n<p>The movie centers on Amlan Ganguly, an ex-lawyer and the charismatic founder of Prayasam, a Kolkata-based NGO. Known as &#8220;Dada&#8221; to all the kids of the neighborhood, Ganguly pushes and cajoles them,\u00a0demanding that they help work for better futures. He&#8217;s up against some difficult and troubling statistics; 12 percent of children ages five to 14 in India work, and 47 percent of girls are married by their 18th birthdays. These and other factors contribute to a deficit of hope, a tamping down of aspiration levels, Ganguly admits.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this more evident than in the community&#8217;s push for drinking water from tap faucets for which they don&#8217;t have to walk several miles, and stand in line. This struggle &#8212; with five years of promises from the local councilman &#8212; forms the backbone of the movie, but Ganguly&#8217;s efforts are manifold. There&#8217;s Baby Singh, the owner of the local brickyard whom Ganguly convinces to open a school, even though he&#8217;s not thrilled with her labor practices. And there&#8217;s the traditional dance classes he enjoys with the young girls, as a means of trying to introduce them to broader social horizons.<\/p>\n<p>Co-directed by Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen, &#8220;The Revolutionary Optimists&#8221; doesn&#8217;t quite wrestle to the ground a more focused dramatic through line; it&#8217;s sometimes rather unclear in marking time or elucidating consequences, which impacts its\u00a0connection a bit. But neither does the film ever lose its capacity to casually shock or move a viewer, as when Ganguly, in an exercise called &#8220;The River of Life&#8221; meant to showcase\u00a0the fact that life has tribulations,\u00a0shares with the children that he was raped by a family caretaker when he was six years old. It&#8217;s a stunning moment, rendered more amazing by Ganguly&#8217;s explanation of how he used that terrible moment to focus his life.<\/p>\n<p>The real stars of &#8220;The Revolutionary Optimists,&#8221; though, are 11-year-olds Salim Sheikh and Shikha Patra,\u00a0who exhibit a preternatural sense of buoyant confidence in working to solve the drinking water problem and further better their community. Their personalities are a reminder that the power of hope is neither a myth nor\u00a0the provenance\u00a0of American exceptionalism, but instead a universal fuel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> For more information, visit the movie&#8217;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RevolutionaryOptimists.org\">www.RevolutionaryOptimists.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Revolutionary-Optimists-Movie-Review.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Revolutionary-Optimists-Movie-Review.jpg\" alt=\"The Revolutionary Optimists Movie Review\" title=\"The Revolutionary Optimists Movie Review\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-122001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Revolutionary-Optimists-Movie-Review.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Revolutionary-Optimists-Movie-Review-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Revolutionary-Optimists-Movie-Review-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Revolutionary Optimists Directors: Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen Unfolding in the urban slums of India, documentary &#8220;The Revolutionary\u00a0Optimists&#8221; attacks the notion that where one is born should alone determine their prospects for health and happiness. 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