The only review it has right now uses the words "generic sex trafficking plot". Besides that being an incredibly *beep* thing to say, there is only one other major movie that is based around human trafficking (Taken). Secondly, this actually happened! I'm so sorry that real events are too generic and predictable for you, a-hole.
shareThere are a few here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896872/externalreviews?mode=desktop
can't use time to review, but it is a very, very good film. Hard to watch because of graphic scenes depicting things no-one should be forced to watch, but they are in line with the reality we live and the reality the film depicts. And we all NEED to watch them to understand just how wrong we are for permitting this kind of thing to go on.
Saw it at an advance screening tonight. Good film and Rachel Weisz is excellent. Kudos for her for taking on this role. Film is also well-edited - I didn't find it too graphic at all - in the one short "torture" scene you don't see what is being done to the victim, but at the end you see the instrument used and you can figure it out for youself. As for the rest of the film, enough is shown of the deplorable conditions that, again, you can figure it out. And the film in no way was close to the graphic details I've seen in several documentaries on human sex trafficking.
The film was suspenseful at times too when Rachel Weisz's character is on her own looking for evidence in the dark - no background music to ruin the suspense - and you're thinking to yourself "get out of there!"
This film will not be to everyone's taste, but it does show a generalized true story about human trafficking that still goes on to this day.
Wasn't this shown at TIFF? It's gotten a few reviews. http://www.mrqe.com/movie_reviews/the-whistleblower-m100083776
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magedraco on Sun May 29 2011 22:16:13 writes:
The only review it has right now uses the words "generic sex trafficking plot". Besides that being an incredibly *beep* thing to say, there is only one other major movie that is based around human trafficking (Taken).This is hardly more major than Lilya 4-ever http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/ but doing it in English is somewhat more major, I suppose. Lilya is fairly harrowing and even though fictitious, it doesn't need to take artistic licence to make a story, generic or otherwise.