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Lilya 4-ever
Lilja 4-ever
2002 · Film · 109 min
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.
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kudos to this shop. Neither my employer nor i are Twilio customers, but i do know then from two projects they have open soruced, which i regularly use--both of very high quality (Flask-RESTful & Localtunnel).
w/r/t the subject of this Post, this is a courageous thing to do--because awareness of this problem, particularly in the US, is not high, and certainly not as high as many other charitable causes (domestic violence, illiteracy, teenager drug use, etc.) In addition, because of the widely alleged and sometimes documented complicity of government officials et al. (see Huffington Post article on Moldova & H/T) this is not a unanimously supported cause like for instance the others i just mentioned.
but my god, the epic scale of this problem and the heart-breaking and prolonged suffering of its victims. About five or six years ago, I saw Lukas Moodysson's landmark film about human trafficking, "Lilya 4-ever"; some of the images from that film i'll never get out of my head.