not bad
i liked it, and have seen it several times. yes it may be predictable, only because this movie follows a rather redundant plotline: prostitution! but by no means does this make the movie bad.
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I liked but I wish it had a better ending than it did. But IT was based on a true story but still...
shareSaving your daughter from a world of prostitution by being persistant, telling her that you forgive her and love her and working with the police if she gets in trouble with the law is better than losing her for good.
shareI totally agree with you. I just wish the daughter had a better out come, but ti was based on a true story.
shareThat's only if she wants to be saved. Dianna chose to be a low-life whore to please her low-life criminal boyfriend.
shareYeah but, you have to save her whether she wants to be saved or not. I'd rather be persistant with my daughter and have her alive than wake up one morning to discover that she's dead.
shareMaybe she did try, but what could she really do? Diana was over 18, so she could not even force her to go back home.
shareMrs Moffitt tormented herself for not being persistant with Diana to save her. Diana's death is what can happen to your daughter if you don't.
shareWell, I don't have any kids. But the only way something like that can happen is if the girl decides "I'm going to be s street whore" and "I want to be with my skanky, criminal boyfriend" "This is how I want to live."
What happened to Diana, basically, is just a possible hazard of the job. People understand the possible job hazards, including being killed on the job (construction worker, fire fighter, cop, etc) when they take the job. The hazards are well known. Being beaten, robbed, even killed are possible hazards of being a whore. It is a known fact. And people (like Diana) choose to do it anyway.
If you ask me, I agree with what Mrs. Moffitt told April's mother at the end and I ask you if you had a daughter who is a prostitute, which is the better choice, Be persistant with your daughter to save her by telling her that you forgive and love her and working with the police if she gets in trouble with the law or disown her, let her stay with her pimp and get beaten up by him and wake up one morning to discover that she's dead?
shareThe second could still happen no matter how much time and energy a person wastes trying to save them if they want to be trash, like Diana.
shareWell, if you ask me, If I were Mrs. Moffitt or Mrs. Hill, I wouldn't care if Diana or April wanted to be trash, I would still save them whether they wanted to be saved or not.
shareAnd how would you do that? Kidnap her, tie her up and hold her against her will? You cannot save a person that simply does not want it.
Bottom line is this. What would you say to a cop if he whined to you that he did not like being shot at on the job? You would tell him that being killed is a possible job hazard, and he knew it when he took that job.
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence knows being killed is a possible job hazard when one chooses to be a whore. Diana chose to be a whore.
Well I'd much rather waste my time and energy trying to save her than wake up one morning to discover that she's dead and besides you shouldn't lie for your daughter's pimp if he beats her up.
shareWho said anything about lying for your daughter's pimp? The whore would probably lie to protect her pimp. Remember, it was DIANA, not her mother, that CHOSE to drop the charges against the pimp. And CHOSE to be with him, knowing what she would be doing. Apparently she thought that was a better life than a family that cared about her, getting an education, working, etc.
shareIf I were Diana, I wouldn't drop the charges against AJ and I'd still be alive and when I run into him on the way to April's, and he said he felt bad about what he did, I would tell him, yeah well, you should and don't you ever talk to me again and don't even come near me, you're not allowed to because if you do, I will call the police and have you charged again. And I'd also have to say that Diana's friend, April is really lucky to be alive today now that Gayle got her out of the trade and back into her mother's arms.
shareThat is assuming that April stayed, and that she did not leave again because her mother did something "terrible" to her - like imposing a curfew or telling her to go to school or get a job.
And Diana did all the opposite of what you said, which is why she is dead. I would not even have become a whore, or even have gone out with a skank like AJ in the first place either.
April wasn't just another one of AJ's prostitutes, she was also a friend of Diana's who worked at that strip joint that Diana once worked at.
shareI know she was April's friend. They were both whores for AJ.
shareDiana and April both had red hair.
shareSo, what does that have to do with anything?
shareI don't know but if Diana hadn't dropped those assault charges against AJ, she'd still be alive now.
shareBut she did drop the charges, and wanted to be trash.
Bottom line is she had no moral compass or sense of decency whatsoever.
And the part where you said I'd be hold ing her against her will trying to save her, If you ask me, AJ was the one who was holding Diana and April against their will.
shareReally? You mean he kidnapped Diana? From what I saw in the movie, she WILLINGLY stayed with him. He gave her a choice - be a whore or go home to her mother. She CHOSE to be a whore. He beat her. She left him and filed charges. Then she CHOSE to drop the charges, act hateful towards her mother (who took her back after the previous hateful way she acted) and CHOSE to go back to him, and back to being a whore.
I don't know about April, but it looked like Diana made her decisions.
In the part where Gayle kicked Diana out of the house, little did she know that this was the last time she'd see Diana and also in the part where she took her back, little did she know that this was the last time she'd talk to or hear from Diana.
shareAnd it's nobody's fault by Diana's. She had a chance at a decent life, she decided that she did not want it.
shareIn the end, AJ got what he deserved-- he's locked up.
shareNo mom should go through what she did.
Justice was served.
May AJ rot in hell
and may Diana rest in peace.
You are right. No mom should have their ungrateful daughter be completely resentful and hateful towards her for no reason. Oh wait, there was a reason. Diana knew her mother didn't like her skanky low-life pimp boyfriend.
I am not saying AJ did not deserve jail time for his illegal activities. Just that Diana was no "innocent victim".
Even if Diana was no innocent victim, may she still rest in peace and when you said that Diana probably would have hated her mother for AJ being locked up, do you think she would haved hate her friend, April for that too?
sharePossibly. Diana was devoted to her pimp. I am sure that she would have turned on April, just like she turned against her high school friend (forgot her name, the one that worked at the cookie place and told Gayle where Diana was).
shareHer name was Laurie and when she told Gayle where Diana was she was like "Look, she'd kill me if she knew that I told you." and "Please, Mrs. Moffitt just don't tell Diana that we talked." and Gayle was like, "Oh no, I promise. I won't."
shareBut it's all AJ's fault for abusing Diana.
shareWhen I said no mom should go through what she did, I was talking about her daughter's death.
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