Show Notes
A story about human trafficking that puts faces to the stories. We are given a glimpse into what really happens and the horrors associated with it.
Original Review:
Human trafficking is a problem that is often overlooked. It isn't something that just happens in other countries, sometimes it happens right in front of us. The question then becomes: What can be done about it? When one young man decides to take a job to transport some cargo across the country for a large sum of money... He doesn't ask a lot of questions. After a close call, he ends up learning exactly what it is that he's hauling. After that, his life will never be the same. Upon arriving at the destination, the cargo is delivered and the money is exchanged but that is far from the end of the story. There is something that he just cannot let go of. As he begins to delve deeper into the mystery of it all he finds himself at a figurative fork in the road. One way he can return home and try to start over or he can stay and try to do the impossible. Whichever he chooses, he'll have to face a fight head-on either way. So which will he choose? This is an endearing story about a young man that has lost almost everything so he feels like he has nothing left to lose. That's a dangerous place to be, but pushing him to that point brought out something that he never even realized was within himself. The subject matter is controversial and the story is difficult at times but the message is one of the most powerful portrayed in a generation.
Transcription:
Hello everybody, and welcome back. It is, of course, me your favorite deputy of movie Deputy Podcasts, bringing to you the full interrogations of movies for their plot and content. If you caught yesterday's show, you know that we talked about the movie Sound of Freedom. As you could tell, I was more than a little bit emotional about it. The occasional chuckles that you hear were not laughter. It's my, it's one of my coping mechanisms. I just kind of let out those little horal things. It's definitely not laughter by any means. The, there's nothing funny about that movie. I actually had the opportunity to review an another movie about human trafficking back in 2016 called Priceless. Again, another movie that is very powerful for what it is, and the message portrayed definitely came across it. It was a little bit more of a story type movie. It was more of, there was a little bit of romance, a little bit of some other stuff mixed in with it. But the horrors that it described were still just absolutely abhorrent and just how that stuff can occur in this day and age. It's just, it boggles my mind. Just the fact that this is still happening in the, it's actually an increasing problem as time goes on. And that's, there's no justification for it. There's no, there's no, it, it cannot be explained. It cannot be defended. These people are sick. They're, there's no other way to describe the people that do this. They're sick. This is another one of those ones. It's, it reaches into your heart, it grabs it, pulls it outta your chest, runs it through a paper shred, runs it through a, takes the pieces, runs it through a blender, and then gives 'em back to you. It, uh, the movie again is called Priceless, came out in 2016. I actually gave this a 6.75 on the deputy scale. I don't know why I gave it such a kind of a mid-range score on that. I remember it was a very powerful movie. I honestly have not seen this movie since I had this screener of it back in 2016. I gave this movie a guilty rating on the deputy scale of that. So I was 13 and above just because the subject matter and kind of everything like that. But, uh, what I'm gonna do now is I'm actually gonna go ahead and reread my movie review to you that has been published on movie deputy.com. And like I've said before, and I just wanna refresh everybody's memory on that, is that I'm in the process of switching over all of the reviews from text form on the website to entirely podcast format. So eventually the web, the movie reviews that are on movie deputy.com will disappear, and there will only be links to find the podcasts. Now, there are transcriptions along with the podcast if you would rather read than listen, so that information is available. So let me know if you guys have any questions about that. Again, my email is movie deputy gmail.com, or you can still reach me on the contact us page on movie deputy.com. I do respond to all of the messages myself, but, so here we go with the review. Human trafficking is a problem that is often overlooked. It isn't something that just happens in other countries. Sometimes it happens right in front of us. The question then becomes what can be done about it? When one man decides to take a job to transport some cargo across the country for a large sum of money, he doesn't ask a lot of questions. After a close call, he ends up learning exactly what it is that he's hauling. And after that, his life will never be the same. Upon arriving at the destination, the cargo is delivered and the money is exchanged. But that is far from the end of the story. There is something that he just cannot let go of as he begins to delve deeper into the mystery of it all. He finds himself at a figurative fork in the road. One way he can return home and try to start over, or he can stay and try and do the impossible, whichever he chooses, he'll have to face a fight head on either way. So which will he choose? This is an endearing story about a young man that has lost almost everything. So he feels like he has nothing left to lose. That's a dangerous place to be, but pushing him to that point brought out something that he never realized was within himself. The subject matter is controversial and the story is difficult at times, but the message is one of the most powerful portrayed in a generation. Yeah, I truly think that review captures the heart of the movie. Everything on movie deputy.com was in 300 words or less. And of course, I always stuck to my, stuck to my nail spoilers. But there, there's so much more to this movie than what can be described in 300 words or less. And there's some quotes from the movie that I wanna share with you. There was one quote that I, I honestly had on, to be honest, I forgot about it. I was looking back through my notes from even back then. It says, there's no difference between a murderer and one that takes a girl's innocence and steals her soul. Now, that just puts it on a whole different perspective. You're thinking, okay, it's, it's just sex. No, it's not. It's really not. Desperation makes people do funny things, and people that are desperate do dangerous things and stupid things. Those decisions and those choices that they make can make or break somebody else. And in this story, we are, we see how people are broken and how people can come back from being broken. The brokenness never heals. Now you'd be thinking, okay, I mean, with faith and with God, and with everything else we could, we, we learn to move on, but it, it never goes away. And people are like, oh, you're just being dramatic. No, no. Unless you've ever been through something that takes your innocence and steals your soul, it's impossible to understand. If you have taken that leap to see sound of freedom, which I so hope you have, please, uh, take a moment and look up the movie price list. This is also one that, it's one of those stories that is from a different perspective. It ju it kind of goes a little bit of a different direction than, but you might expect there's another line in this movie that so applies to not only the characters in the movie, but to you, to me, to everybody. It says the pages of our story are still being written, but here's the good news. We're not the author. Now, if you are truly a person of faith, you'll understand that comment. If you're not, you may wonder. It's like what that comment resonates so deeply with so many of us that I had to share it. And it, like I said, it's part of the movie. It's a piece of the movie, but it's not the, it's not the whole thing. So I hope you take a chance on this one. I'm glad I did. They, the producers or directors, whoever, whoever was in charge of priceless, actually took the quote of mine that the subject matter is controversial and the story is difficult at times, but the message is one of the most powerful portrayed in a generation and shared that with the general public and everything. They put it on like a screenshot of the movie, and I believe that's even on their D v D jacket. So it was actually my first DVD jacket. It's kind of a, I mean, mixed feelings on that, just because the movie is so just so emotional throughout. I'm glad that my comment, my phrase that I used impacted them enough. They wanted to share it. I know sometimes being the storyteller isn't always sharing the story directly. I mean, sometimes it's indirectly like in the form of my reviews, I try to bring you the information about the movie and some of the little details that could maybe be missed. And who knows, maybe I've helped you find movies that you never even would've thought of before, and maybe I've helped you skip other ones. So , it's kind of a mixed bag with all of that, but it's a, it's a journey and it's an adventure. As I always like to mention, if there's dedications at the end of movies, I try to mention them just because if they're important enough for them, I wanna try to share in the credits. This one did say in memory of Dale Francis, and so I wanted to share that with you as well. Yeah, like I said, check out these movies. They're powerful. They will sound of freedom, will for sure change your life. But this one kind of gives a different perspective on the same type of story, but it's not so overdone that it, you're not gonna be bored with it, let's put it that way. There's, there's enough here and it's done differently that it gives you a different perspective on this type of story, on the how, the why, the when, the, where, et cetera. And like I said, you'll be glad you did. But that's about all I've got on this for now. So until next time, bye-bye.
Notes:
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