Movies — idelette

The Candy Shop: Creepy Fairytale/Movie with a Powerful Message about Human Trafficking

I still have goosebumps after watching this trailer for the upcoming release of The Candy Shop, a fairytale-style short film about child sexual exploitation.

The line that gripped me? “If there wasn’t such a need, there wouldn’t be so much business, now would there?”

Reminds me of something Benjamin Perrin said Monday night at the launch of Invisible Chains: “We need to get serious about demand.” While this movie is set in a 1930s candy shop and was shot in Atlanta to raise awareness of this city’s dirty secrets, it’s the reality for millions all over the world: Girls (and boys) are lured into the Candy Shop and they don’t come out.

Check out the official site for this movie. You can also read more about it at humantrafficking.change.org.

District 9: Brilliant review by South African critic

arts-district9-584 “Becoming the alien: apartheid, racism and district 9″ has to be the best review I have read of District 9 yet. Andries du Toit navigates the Apartheid and racial layers of District 9 brilliantly.

I had a hard time watching the movie. While I thought the concept was excellent, I personally struggled sitting through the language and nuances of Apartheid played out in front of me so vividly. I was right back in pre-1994 South Africa. Every racial innuendo hit me in the stomach and I felt sick.

Meanwhile, it also left me somewhat frustrated imagining that the audience likely didn’t get the many layers of the movie. It was like eating chocolate cake with an audience who thinks it’s really great cheesecake.

Du Toit’s review is a brilliant lesson in eating chocolate cake. It’s long, but seriously worth it. (Spoiler alert.)