Amar

Amar (all great achievements require time) from Pilgrim Films on Vimeo.

Amar is a film about a 14 year old indian boy who is his family's main breadwinner, working two jobs six and half days a week. But this film isn't about his misery and suffering because he has two jobs and has to go to school.  Vimeo describes the film as a quiet celebration of the human spirit–of a boy whose tenacity and quiet resolve carry him through every day.  The focus of the film is about Amar's daily life.  In the end, the film is not requesting we view Amar as a hero, but to pay attention and give up nine minutes of our lives to realize that there is some beauty in the world still left. 

Amar has to wake up at 4am to do a job that consists of distributing newspapers to the neighborhood. By 6am he is reviewing his school work. Around 8:46am he is in a store helping his father. At 1 in the afternoon he takes a shower,gets dressed, eats and then he's off to school. After school around 5 in the afternoon he has to go to another job. He is home by 10 at night and he is studying schoolwork.

I acknowledge Amar because he does way more than I do at such a young age.  I have never woke up at 4 in the morning to go to work to then go to school, and after school go to another job to get home late at night to do homework and repeat. Of course, because America is different than India and kids at a young age can't start working, only attend school. But at a certain age kids could start working.