Human Trafficking
"Every day, young girls are bought and sold" is the first sentence that appears on a black screen in Human Traffcking's trailer. This is true, so true and this is what the lifetime network movie is all about: trying to tell people the truth about modern slavery. It shows us how women are treated like objects, sexual objects and trade objects. It shows us how victims are near us and- which is even more frightening- how the actors of this whole organization can be you own neighbor, you doctor, you kid's teacher... We, as a society, are responsible for human trafficking... If you want your eyes to get open on a world's reality, Human Trafficking is a good way to learn. Watch and learn takes all it sense...
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Very good! - suntep
This is so hard to watch and even believe! It is sad that citizens of this planet of capalbe of doing such things to one another. If there is life out there, why would they want to visit us? It's quite long three hours in fact, but such an important message that needs to get out!We can protect you - AandW
Pretty good for a made for TV movie. Donald Sutherland is great... as usual. 3 hours in length, but packed with action. The movie takes on the world of selling humans. As it is put in the movie, it is the crime of the future. Drugs can only be sold once, but humans can be sold, over and over again. Held against their will. Their documents are taken. They are forced to performing sexual acts to pay down their "debts". There is no escape. Only the longing for death.Good, but too simplistic and inaccurate - Alex14
I zipped this movie two months ago but just couldn't make myself to watch it for weeks. The subject seemed too overwhelming and depressing to consider this movie a fun Friday night flick.
Finally, my wife and I viewed it and were relieved to see that the depressing theme was wrapped up in a neat little police investigation story, where the aspiring female detective dismantles the human trafficking business of a remarkably rich, clever, and cold-hearted antagonist.
The major problem of the film was its ignorance of the cultures and countries it portrayed - particularly those in Eastern Europe. Being Ukrainian myself, I had a good chuckle at the movie's Ukrainian flat that had a clay oven in the middle of the living room and a fridge with black-and-white stickers on it, at the USSR-style school backpacks that I haven't seen in 20 years, and at the cobbled streets of suburban Kyiv. Sure, this is not important to drive the main point of the movie home, but shouldn't the story make people more culturally aware?
Another problem of the movie is its happy end - I think that the plot should have left the viewers feeling that human trafficking is a major world's problem and not a western-style story where the good guy always wins.
The last phrase of the movie concludes that human trafficking remains a big problem when we choose to ignore it. I am not quite sure what is meant by "ignore" or what can an average middle-class person do to curtail it.
So, I am giving this movie three stars. It's not bad, but could be so much better.
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Very good! - suntep
This is so hard to watch and even believe! It is sad that citizens of this planet of capalbe of doing such things to one another. If there is life out there, why would they want to visit us? It's quite long three hours in fact, but such an important message ...We can protect you - AandW
Pretty good for a made for TV movie. Donald Sutherland is great... as usual. 3 hours in length, but packed with action. The movie takes on the world of selling humans. As it is put in the movie, it is the crime of the future. Drugs can only be sold once, ...Good, but too simplistic and inaccurate - Alex14
I zipped this movie two months ago but just couldn't make myself to watch it for weeks. The subject seemed too overwhelming and depressing to consider this movie a fun Friday night flick.
Finally, my wife and I viewed it and were relieved to see that the ...