WOMEN’S DAY Resource - Dramatic Film: TRADE of INNOCENTS
In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man.
Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for use of a child. Claire (Mira Sorvino), Alex’s wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls, where lives of local neighbourhood girl’s freedoms and dignity are threatened.
Parallel story lines intertwine and unfold twists against the backdrop of the dangerous human trafficking world, in a story of struggle, life, hope and redemption in the Trade of Innocents.
“Very rarely do you find a film, a thriller no less, with such heart beating at its core.” Nicki Richesin, The Huffington Post.
“Extremely powerful with a message vital for the world!” Jeffrey Lyons.
FILM REVIEW from MOVIEGUIDE
To see the full review online, click here.
Trade of Innocents has very strong moral worldview with light Christian, redemptive content; one obscenity; strong action violence and sex trafficking with a girl being beaten and finally a shootout and a man drops to his death, a woman is beaten, fight scene, several chases, all very much muted, making it acceptable for television; references to paedophilia and underage sex because the movie is about the sex trade, but nothing is shown; no nudity; alcohol use in the background in one bar scene; no smoking or drugs; and corrupt police force.
Trade of Innocents is a dramatic movie about the sex trade in Cambodia. Alex Becker and his wife, Claire, work for a rescue organisation to stop sex trafficking in Cambodia. They love each other, but their marriage is hurt by the fact that, in the United States, while he was on duty in the Middle East, their 11-year-old daughter Abigail was kidnapped and killed. Neither wants to talk about Abigail. Therefore, their attempt to stop the Cambodian sex trade is deeply motivated by their own loss.
Even so, sex slavery and trafficking pervade the entire Cambodian society, including the government. Parents believe children have to provide for them, even if the children have to become sex slaves. The police captain continually tells Alex he does not understand the Cambodian culture and is trying to impose Western values.
Meanwhile, an American paedophile tells the head of the local trafficking ring that he wants a young 7-year-old girl. So, the trafficker is on the hunt for a young girl. The paedophile says he’s willing to pay $30,000. The trafficker kidnaps the little girl, who is the granddaughter of the man who owns the shop under the apartment where the Becker’s live. Claire has befriended this girl.
Alex leads several raids on the trafficking gang, but it seems like someone is tipping them off. Eventually, Claire and the little girl are trapped by the trafficker on top of one of the pyramids at Angkor Wat. Will Alex get there in time and save them?
Considering the very important and very delicate topic it is confronting, Trade of Innocents does an incredible job of being a powerful, tense drama without being salacious. Mira Sorvino is always a great actress. Some of the scenes are extremely powerful. The plot is clear and well developed. This is an important movie and not only worth seeing but also entertaining.
Click here to see the YouTube trailer.
Trade of Innocents is available for R55 (excluding postage) from Christian Liberty Books, PO Box 358, Howard Place 7450, Cape Town, South Africa, Tel: 021-689-7478, Fax: 086-551-7490, Email: admin@christianlibertybooks.co.za and Website: www.christianlibertybooks.co.za.
Participate in our Women’s Day Outreaches
On Monday, 10 August 2020, Women’s Day, Africa Christian Action will be setting up literature tables in different shopping malls in the Cape Town area. We will be offering free literature from our tables to all interested people, primarily focusing on informing and motivating people to make a difference in stopping human trafficking.
Cape Town: Volunteers Needed!
Contact us if you would like to get involved in any of the outreaches planned in various shopping Malls. We will slot you in at a time that is convenient for you. If possible, join us for a morning, or afternoon shift. The morning shift starts at 9:00 am. The afternoon shift starts at 12:00 noon. This is a great opportunity for one-on-one Evangelism, discussions and counselling. “Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud.” Proverbs 8:1-3
Dr. Peter Hammond
Africa Christian Action
PO Box 23632
Claremont 7735
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689 4480
info@christianaction.org.za
www.christianaction.org.za
www.livingstonefellowship.co.za
See also:
Click here to view and share our video: Stop Human Trafficking.
Stop the Traffick tract, can be printed and distributed, click here (colour) and here (black and white).
See Fight the New Drug tract, can be printed and distributed, click here.
Digital Cocaine DVD, or the book (available from www.ChristianLibertyBooks.co.za)
Trade of Innocents DVD (available from www.ChristianLibertyBooks.co.za)
The Christian Liberation of Women tract
Exposing and Opposing Slavery Today video
Women’s Day Awareness Campaigns Against Human Trafficking
Slavery Today – Setting the Captives Free
