Human Trafficking
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Actor: Donald Sutherland, Isabelle Blais, Laurence Leboeuf, Mira Sorvino, Rémy GirardBrand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 44559
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Product features:
- HUMAN TRAFFICKING (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Human Trafficking
DVD Review: A Graphic Eye-Opener
Summary: 4 Stars
First, be forewarned. There are several movies/documentaries out there with similar titles. This film does NOT deal with the subject of Mexican citizens being smuggled into the U.S. This "Human Trafficking" is an extremely graphic, brutal picture of girls being trapped into prostitution.
I realized a sex slave trade existed, but before seeing this movie, I had no idea the practice was currently so widespread and organized. The phrase "the slave trade" always had a vaguely Victorian, almost comic ring to me. I knew the slave trader mainly as a bogeyman that 19th-century parents scared their daughters with, keeping them from venturing out too far or too freely into the world on their own. But I didn't know it was something that so many modern parents literally might need to guard their children against. According to this film's concluding screen facts and figures, the practice is extensive, and growing - thanks in part to hook-ups facilitated by the computer.
This film shows how young women are recruited. One thinks she has qualified for a modeling job in an exotic location. One thinks she is being courted by the man of her dreams - and flies to meet him for a vacation in another country. As soon as these deluded young women arrive at their destinations - the bars on their lives clang shut. It is difficult for most of them to survive the horrors they face.
Robert Carlyle is chilling here in his role as the head of a multi-national slave trafficking operation. He is a brutal juggernaut of all business-only business - in distinct contrast with the affably entrepreneurial character he played in "The Full Monty."
Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland are less well cast as the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents on the trail of traffickers. There is something off about the dynamic between these two. It's the cliché of the female agency rookie who has to prove herself to her crusty unit boss. We've seen it a thousand times in everything from "Silence of the Lambs" down to current CSI episodes. But, there's something a little unnerving about this particular teaming. Unintentionally, I'm sure, there is even a disconcerting shadow of the slave trade dynamic being reenacted between these two. Sorvino is the much younger woman, being handled, managed, overseen, by the much older man. Southerland sits back in cold appraisal of her until the end, when he throws her a crumb of approval - which she might pathetically be led to interpret as affection?
Also, the blondness that Sorvino has affected in recent pictures is so at odds with her natural brunette beauty - that she in her own way appears to be tricked out for sale. We see strands of her Paris Hilton hairdo straggling out of her ICE cap as she pursues the bad guys. In order to keep this film from slipping dangerously close to being an exploitation of its sensationalism subject matter, it might have been better to cast a professional-looking woman working with her ICE colleagues as a true equal. After the horrors of Carlyle's sex trade, viewers need a place of relief and refuge - a place where we feel the values of proper human relations are being upheld. We don't quite get that here though.
This movie is depressing and jarring throughout. It will awaken viewers to a growing problem. I hope it doesn't just stop at galvanizing celebrity problem-of-the-month fundraisers though. I hope it might provoke a deeper consideration of the factors in human nature that make this kind of slave trade so hugely, perennially profitable.
Description of Human Trafficking
Nominated for Two Golden Globes® - Best Actress and Best Actor in a TV Miniseries; Lifetime Television's most-watched miniseries of 2005. Featuring Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award winner Donald Sutherland (The Italian Job), Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Award winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle, Human Trafficking is at once a gripping thriller, a cautionary tale, and one of the most fundamentally important stories of our time. DVD Features include: Interviews with Mira Sorvino and Robert Carlyle, Behind the Scenes with the cast and crew, and A "Take Action" Guide to shop human trafficking now!Bestsellers in DVD
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