A couple years ago, Comcast On Demand started listing movies attributed to ‘Phase IV.’ Things you never heard of. Figured it was the bottom of the straight to cable barrel. Didn’t watch.
But Netflix has been flexing its muscles of late, and I found a movie given four stars under the Phase IV rubric. It was called The Abduction of Eden.
The always too brief description said it was about international sex trafficking. Which struck a chord with me, given the Nigerian atrocity of schoolgirls abducted by an Al Qaida affiliate called Boko Aram. Today’s news: Hillary Clinton, champion of women’s and girl’s rights, refused repeated, insistent requests by the CIA, FBI, and DOJ to classify Boko Haram as a terrorist organization on the official watch list. Cause, you know, it would have conflicted with the administration’s meme of Al Qaeda ‘On the Run.’
Such a sweet idea, no? But look at the video. Horrific images and saccharine lyrics. Is that the genius of the Paul who is not THE Paul? Thinking so. At least Lennon got mad twice.
So I watched the low budget, straight to video production called Abduction of Eden.
Lo and behold. The single best treatment of the horrors of sex trafficking I’ve ever seen. Let me count the ways. No exploitative sex scenes or nudity, no federal agents crashing around in putative rescue attempts, no pious declarations by bureaucrats to get to the bottom of this hideous nightmare in human lives. No unalloyed happy endings punctuated by automatic gunfire and shamed, helpless girls cringing in cargo containers.
In place of all this, a good movie that drives home every noxious and humiliating aspect of this obscenity against the most basic human contract, that we will protect our girl children against predation.
Watch the movie. Dark but not without moments of light. Humanity is still brighter than evil.
P.S. RR suggests, somewhat ingenuously, that I should be a light bringer. As opposed to what? If the light that shines on the scene is a terrible light, that’s the light that has to be brung. Where we are right now.
Synchronicity once again. A horrible subject most don’t want to know about. You’ve done a great job exposing this.
Shame on Hillary.
I’m most of the way through Hannah Arendt, it’s excellent and thought provoking. Then I’ll turn my attention to this, the modern dehumanization of innocents. When we refuse to look, we’re the German citizens who ignored the smokestacks just outside town.