This is a well-made film ... about stupid people who get themselves into difficult situations .... and dishonest people who exploit that stupidity.
The problem is that this film claims to be a great deal more than this. The text narrative at the end tries to convince us that what we just saw was an example of sex-traficking. This is incorrect, insincere, and a slap in the face of people whose lives have been and continue to be touched by this horrible crime.
Sex trafickig is when a weak and defenseless person, like a child or teenager, is kidnapped, cut off from family and support system, and forced into sexual slavery under threat of violence or even murder.
Of course, this is not what this movie is about at all. These are fully grown adult women who are willing participants out of sheer greed and raging hormones. Prostitution is the world's oldest profession, and not all prostitutes are desperate teenage runaways and street corner hookers. Many "high class" escorts actually like their job and even make a very good living doing it.
A better movie about sex traficking is "Taken", or even Rambo 5! I'm sure there are others that I'm just not familiar with. But knowing that atrocities portrayed in "Taken" can and do happen, assigning the label of sex-traficking to the deliberate trashy lifestyle portrayed in "Girls to Buy" is a shameless disservice to the true victims.
Not saying you shouldn't watch this film. Just don't let yourself be had by its pretentious message.
The problem is that this film claims to be a great deal more than this. The text narrative at the end tries to convince us that what we just saw was an example of sex-traficking. This is incorrect, insincere, and a slap in the face of people whose lives have been and continue to be touched by this horrible crime.
Sex trafickig is when a weak and defenseless person, like a child or teenager, is kidnapped, cut off from family and support system, and forced into sexual slavery under threat of violence or even murder.
Of course, this is not what this movie is about at all. These are fully grown adult women who are willing participants out of sheer greed and raging hormones. Prostitution is the world's oldest profession, and not all prostitutes are desperate teenage runaways and street corner hookers. Many "high class" escorts actually like their job and even make a very good living doing it.
A better movie about sex traficking is "Taken", or even Rambo 5! I'm sure there are others that I'm just not familiar with. But knowing that atrocities portrayed in "Taken" can and do happen, assigning the label of sex-traficking to the deliberate trashy lifestyle portrayed in "Girls to Buy" is a shameless disservice to the true victims.
Not saying you shouldn't watch this film. Just don't let yourself be had by its pretentious message.