Lilja 4-Ever

(2002)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	DVD

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[Lilya 4-Ever]

A movie about the sex trafficking of young girls from the former Soviet Union to the West on the basis of dreams of a better life. A bleak, dispiriting and somewhat depressing vision that sparkles with emotional realism despite the tragic inevitability of the film’s ending.

That a culture could be so sexually obsessed that there is actually a shortage of prostitutes in the West, that they have to be imported from the East, says a great deal about Whites they do not wish to hear: About their unhealthy attitudes toward their own bodies, their feelings – and each other.

The acting is quietly understated and there seems no way out of this cycle of exploitation since few want to face the fact that such people trafficking involves large sums of money. While perfectly ordinary - and apparently respectable - Westerners want to have sex, for money, with teenagers.

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