Utterly depressing...


Not sure what to say. Most of the time we're shielded and protected from the way the other half lives, but there's no looking away here. Some of these horrible and deplorable living situations seem second only to concentration camp footage. Everything has to do with money. Money, money, money. Money is God. Everyone will sell their souls in order to survive. Depicts sex as cheap and ugly and disgusting. We are all just uncivilized creatures when it comes down to it. I just hate this kind of stuff. But it's real, it's out there. I don't know why life doesn't just end, the world is such a horrible place.

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Oh I don't know.. The director had to gain the participant's trust and deliver on his promise to not condemn them, so it's actually a very even film: it stops short of condemning or glorifying- although it's a terrible title i'll give you that.. For some reason I found The Great Happiness Space more depressing than this in spite of the missing poverty factor in that film.. But cheer up budarc, the world's full of undeniably good stuff too..

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Life is uneven. We're shielded because living in industrially-superior countries and having more opportunities to make money means we don't have to live like that. Those countries depicted in the doc have some of the highest poverty in the entire world and the least amount of opportunities. Ironically, a lot of people in these countries have more usable skills than those spoiled and lazy people in developed nations. But with more people than jobs, this is what they end up with. And unfortunately, even first world countries may end up there in the future.

Notice that mexicans, southeast asians and indians are some of the hardest working people when they come to the US. That's because they're used to working hard for peanuts in their homelands and still starving. So it's very little adjustment for them to move to a place where they can make 10=20x what they were earning for the same work ethic.

I really feel sorry for the women in this movie. For most of them, this is the closest they will ever come to marriage, true love and affection from a man. With rare exceptions, the men see them as nothing more than comfort women to unleash their lust and sexual deviance that they shield their wives, girlfriends & fiancees from. So prostitutes are essentially "sin eaters".

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As for 'sexual deviance', the madames in the Bangladesh brothel make a point of warning their girls not to give in to anything deviant. The trade's about intercourse there, and that's it. No oral sex or anything else.

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What's the most depressing is the part where one of the girls admits that shes not happy.That no women there are happy they are very unhappy creatures .I was confused about the currency difference over in bangladesh .I looked up when the they brought up about 300 takas .In us it translates $3.81 U.S thats insane i'm sure things are alot more cheaper over there. Then here but still ,thats like working for peanuts.You know i've seen movies that try to bring awareness to these kinds of things and just fall short with me.The best way to address this subject truthfully to where people will really feel the message is ;via documentary.

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In a country where a lot of the men make $50-100 a month working everyday, how much do you think they can pay to get laid?

$3.81 times 10 customers a day for some is as much as many make in a month. The people who sewed your clothes for instance.

It was glossed over but I did get the feeling that the local police, mafia, or some government official was taking a large portion of the earning.

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This was beyond depressing to watch. I've researched prosituation in Thailand for a book and so I was not taken by surprise with the Thai material. But the Bangladesh and Mexican sections made me physically ill.

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Yes, it was very depressing. I've always been into sociocultural topics, so I've seen the worst of humanity, but even with all of that, I'm not desensitized, as it still affects me. But people like you, those who see the wrong in this world and are disgusted by it, will continue to give us hope. Change starts with acknowledging the problems, so your thoughts, ideas and contributions are important. Nothing will ever be perfect, but improvement begins with people caring, and you obviously do. Don't get too down, there is a lot of good around us as well.

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Deep poverty in the second story. Horrible things to see. I want to take them all home, and feed them, and give them hugs. Wth...

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