Born Into Brothels
Born into brothels is a documentary that is put together and filmed not only by the director Zana Briski, but also by the kids in India. Zana Briski wanted to teach a class that revolved around the details photography and the children had to perform specific task each day with the cameras. One of the many tasks that these students had to perform was to go around the district and take photos of whatever interested them. This particular assignment played a big role in how Briski wanted to get her message across because it showed their everyday lifestyle in reality. The children being documented live in Kolkata, India and have a unique lifestyle that was more then attractive to Briski. This was a major rhetorical persuasive tactic that she used.
As Zana developed her relationship with the kids and throughout the whole documentary she used a variety of pathos skills to persuade the audience. One of the main tactics she used was when she introduced a new child to the viewer she gave a quick background of their family and nothing was positive. The fact that there were no positive family background for neither child whether it was death of a parent, no parent, prostitution, or no family at all, it served a major purpose into persuading the viewer. Everyone has a heart for kids so when we, as an audience witness this in a personal stand point it makes one think more in detail about how much more disadvantaged these kids are.
The overall structure of the documentary was very detailed into a pathos point of view. Throughout the entire video I really didn’t need any facts or statistics to persuade my emotions toward this because the stories alone and the everyday lifestyle sold me and made me realize how bad of a life people may live and how we as Americans take life for granted.
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