A thriller about trafficking, governmental deportation and the sex slave trade in Melbourne.A thriller about trafficking, governmental deportation and the sex slave trade in Melbourne.A thriller about trafficking, governmental deportation and the sex slave trade in Melbourne.
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- TriviaWriter/director McLachlan was inspired to write the film after being told by a friend about the human trafficking that goes on in Australia.
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In this low budget picture, shot on HD, a 20 something Melbourne insurance worker becomes involved in the search for a victim of the sex slave racket. It's not really a thriller or a social document. Its dramatic focus is split between the prostitute/prisoners and the insurance worker, so the viewer tends to become attached and then detached. I think I was supposed to care about the insurance worker's personal life, which I was, a bit, but not that much. More importantly, I wanted to get to know the prostitute girls better as people, but there didn't seem to be time. Saskia Burmeister and Sun Park are excellent as two of the enslaved girls. Emma Lung is much less convincing. The music is dull, and includes that modern penchant for angelic choirs underscoring hideous physical abuse. Why? And what is this film actually about? The sex slaves? The insurance agent? The iniquity of the trafficking itself? Another couple of drafts of the script would maybe have sharpened up the focus. Nevertheless, it's not bad little picture.
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- $199,728
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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