I caught this documentary at the Calgary International Film Festival. I had seen Bombay Eunuch a couple of days prior and found it sad, but a sadness tempered with the resiliency of some of subjects in that one. Children Underground had no silver lining. It is unrelentingly sad- scenes where children return home to their families of origin, ones in which the viewer is begging for some semblance of hope, devolve as we see the dysfunctions that drive 8-year-olds to run away. One mother's lament that she was better off under Ceaucescu should not be taken lightly. Children Underground is testament to the horrors experienced by those unlucky persons whose lives were destroyed in the "victory" over communism. Damn this world. I have never felt so powerless as after I saw these poor children. Damn this world.
Review of Children Underground
