Definitively an underrated and eye-openning movie. You know, not only in USA economical refugees (aka "clandestine" in Italy or "illegals" in USA) are treated like *beep* both by smugglers and by xenophobic groups; usually ultra-nationalist wackos who complains about immigrants while at the same time abuses them: paying them much less for hard jobs that none citizen of the 1st world considers "honorable" jobs, yet somebody gotta do those jobs, otherwise they (honorable citizens) would have to do it by themselves. Unthinkable!
It also points at the fact that SOME FEW immigrants are rotten tomatoes. But for the few, the most suffers the consequences in their own flesh: Racism, xenophobia, brutality, etc.
"Once you're born..." is a film that deals with one of the greatest challenges to solve in XXI: The immigration produced by the huge economical gap between 1st world countries and the rest of the world.
IMO if rich countries could help the poorest countries, instead of invading them in order to steal their natural resources. Providing medical, educational, technical and humanitarian aid instead of selling guns to corrupt warlords. Not dethroning democratically elected governments to install their own men (usually brutal dictators), whether they like those governments or not (Examples there are many: Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, etc.). If all that happens, then there is still hope. I am not that optimistic though.
Once I saw a man from Senegal carrying a banner during a protest in Paris. In the banner you could read: "We are here now, because you were there before".
I think it summarizes perfectly the message of this movie.
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