No sense of feelgood in sweatshop

Jan 29 2009 By Maureen Messent

I’M PUT out by those film critics who hailed Slumdog Millionaire as a “feelgood” production that left them smiling.

It told of one lad who rose above slum life in Mumbai and thereby missed a chance to expose the dreadful conditions rampant in India’s big cities.

There’s nothing feelgood in slums where brothers sell their sisters and children work 16 hours a day in sweatshops.

The same critics, I can remember, announced the film Pretty Woman to be another feelgood effort, thus missing the point that prostitution, no matter how glamorously portrayed is still prostitution.

Gullible souls.