Half the Sky; An Inspiration

While watching Half the Sky I cannot help but to think how useful this documentary is for raising awareness in different parts of the world. I find this documentary both inspiring and very interesting. Half the Sky is an easy way for people to become more aware about topics that are foreign to their own home turf. Our culture today is deemed sometimes as being quite lazy. If more students were shown this video they could become easily involved and aware without doing any research themselves.

This film was very smart by including celebrities of the modern day world. By including very important actress such as Meg Ryan and Eva Mendes creates more of a draw for different audience members. We can only hope that these celebrities will be more involved with these issues in the future. This is why this documentary is very different than others. In Somaly Mam’s book she discusses how often celebrities send her money to donate to her foundation. She tells the readers by sending money you are helping but you do not know what the living conditions or the situations are actually like. This is why I feel it is important that celebrities actually visit the place in need of awareness. By visiting celebrities can understand the hardships from a more personal experience. Once developing a personal experience the celebrity will feel most likely connected to this foundation and we can only help that they will use their limelight power by putting a spotlight on a country in need.