This isn't how trafficking works
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marlarkey — 12 years ago(March 14, 2014 08:17 AM)
This isn't how trafficking works
They don't go to that much trouble to 'acquire' girls they con them into travelling abroad with stories of lavish lifestyles and huge earnings they sell the dream for a small fee
Only when they arrive do the girls find what the price is and by then they are 'in debt' to the criminals that traffic them so they have to "repay" the debt.
THAT'S how it works - a serious issue
This film exploits a real issue for torture porn purposes, misrepresenting the real issue in this 'jeopardy/disaster/kidnap/torture' style
This film does no justice to real victims of trafficking. -
maxx816 — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 03:09 AM)
First of all, if this was a documentary you would have a valid point, but it's not. It's a fictional film losely based on a real issue. The scenarios presented are played up for dramatic effect. LIKE IN EVERY OTHER FICTIONAL FILM, DIPSHT!
No where in the movie does it say, based on a true story. Your comment only reveals how little you grasp the definition of the word FICTION and you should probably not be allowed to leave comments, seeing as you don't know the difference between a documentary and a fictional film. -
marlarkey — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 02:31 AM)
Its not loosely based on a real issue that's the whole point it is not at all the depiction of the real world.
If it based on human trafficking then it is a bad depiction of what really happens in the real world.
If it not based on real world human trafficking then it is just a bad thriller depicting bad people doing bad things for the entertainment of immoral people who glean enjoyment from such violence and depravity maybe you're one of those who enjoy such "fiction" for "dramatic effect".
In other words, it either has no validity or social message to redeem it. or it is just immoral as entertainment.
You choose.
You should grow up and start take a more adult interest in cinema. -
maxx816 — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 03:17 AM)
Another thing, this film is supposed to be an entertaining thriller. It wasn't made for educational purposes, but rather entertainment purposes. It's not supposed to give justice to real life victims of human trafficking. That's what you fail to understand.
You don't know how to separate entertainment from educational /informative. -
met76 — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 04:46 PM)
Oh, absolutely. The same was the case with the film "Taken". Upper class young American girls regularly get kidnapped into sex slavery in Eastern Europe - as if that would ever happen. Rubbish, just as you said. Real human trafficking looks nothing like this.
(My post was not meant sarcastic, it's serious.) -
Stovepipe99 — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 05:53 PM)
I found the premise similarly tasteless. I had a friend who worked for the Polaris Project (an anti-trafficking organization), and she specifically worked to aid women from Eastern Europe who were being bought into the US as sex slaves via ports in New Jersey.
I understand that the movie gets a jolt of shock from the audience by showing nice, middle-class white women being pulled into the seedy world of sex trafficking, but when the reality is so much in the opposite direction (women coming into the US, not out; women of poor means, not comfortably middle class; etc) it just feels like its promoting a false narrative that it's only evil forces outside of the US taking these helpless American women, as opposed to the reality of women being brought into the US to serve men in the US as forced prostitution.
The movie is fiction, but to invert reality to fit a xenophobic narrative (those evil foreigners and their insatiable lust for pure white women!) is incredibly disingenuous. -
Titan — 1 week ago(March 24, 2026 12:29 PM)
The movie would have been uber boring if it was desperate eastern european women being conned into the sex trade.
The fact that it is middle class american White women being sold as concubines or sex slaves in Asia makes it far more relatable and thus interesting.