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Running a marathon is a particularly arduous task, even for the most able-bodied athlete. But for a four-year old to run a marathon is extraordinary. Especially a four-year old Indian boy who, at the age of two, was sold by his mother to a street peddler for 800 rupees. Meet Budhia, a prodigious runner and product of the slums, who is taken in and raised by a relentless trainer named Biranchi Das. After Das pushes Budhia to run a 42-mile race (which he completes), governmental agencies intervene and attempt to remove the boy from the custody of Das. Local protests erupt, a man is murdered, and Budhia returns to the care of his mother. This is the story told by the documentary
Marathon Boy. //
trailer //
review //
interview with filmmaker
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates
on Nov 12, 2011 -
18 comments
IS TROPICAL - THE GREEKS: Official music video (Vimeo, 3.25); live action combined with animation for real comic-book violence. NSFW owing to boys being shot, blown up, shot, electrocuted, shot, slashed and then shot some more.
posted by bwg
on May 29, 2011 -
45 comments
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy with Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly. Well, right or wrong
they sing either way.
posted by punkfloyd
on Dec 14, 2010 -
12 comments
There's been plenty of
Bullshit! on MetaFilter before, and now there's more: Boy Scouts [
1,
2,
3] (
"Duty to God ahead of country, others, and self, is the credo of suicide bombers.");
Wal-Mart Hatred (
"Wal-Mart is one of the great anti-poverty programmes in the country.");
Circumcision (
"By the end of this programme, one of these three will drop their pants and show us the restored foreskin on their penis."); and
The Best (
"Stupid? How many of you are searching for it on the web right now?").
posted by hoverboards don't work on water
on Apr 27, 2007 -
46 comments
Would you trust
this man with your life's savings? Successful entrepeneur and president of Trans Continental Airlines cum boy band svengali,
Lou Pearlman was the guiding hand behind N'Sync, the Backstreet Boys, and O-Town. Now, however,
he's on the lam, wanted by the FBI for swindling old folks out of $317 million. Pearlman was last seen in Berlin on February 1st; as he sat in a crowded theater watching his latest creation, the German boy band
US5, win an international pop award, FBI investigators were already combing through his Florida home and offices.
posted by billysumday
on Apr 17, 2007 -
43 comments
When I first saw
it, my jaw hit the floor. After years of thinking I would suffer alone with the memory, I found others who
knew. Along the way, I discovered other
gems... even though my personal tastes were more
epic. When she asked why I loved
them so much, I replied, "Because they are so
ambitious. They try so
hard".
posted by squidfartz
on Sep 22, 2006 -
23 comments
Boy Scouts
tell Atheist Eagle Scout he has one week to declare his belief or get out.
On membership applications,
Boy Scouts and adult leaders must say they recognize some higher power, not necessarily religious. "Mother Nature would be acceptable," said Brad Farmer, the Scout executive of the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts. Hmmmm...
posted by quirked
on Oct 30, 2002 -
45 comments
A 12-year old Palestinian boy whose death in an Israeli-Palestinian gun battle shocked the world was killed by Israeli soldiers, a senior army commander confirmed today. The death of the boy, Mohammed Jamal Aldura, was captured by French television. The images of his terrifying last moments have come to symbolize the chaotic nature of the violent confrontations of the past few days. The death toll is at more than 50 now, almost all of them Palestinians.
Me and my wife both saw this on TV the other day.
Needless to say, it was very graphic and shocking. The poor boy was hiding behind his father who himself was behind only a small stone and trying to wave that he was unarmed and not a threat. He did this continuously for 15-20 seconds, and then all of a suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire, with 10-20 bullets hitting him, the boy, and all around them. The boy was dead, and the man was injured critically.
This to me, did not look like a random act of chaotic violence, but more of an act of murder.
This distressed my wife so much she started crying, the images were so shocking.
Thanks to Sudama for the link... I hadn't seen the story in the "press" which seems not to want to print the "other" side of the story.
posted by da5id
on Oct 4, 2000 -
20 comments
