对于一个纪录电影来说,挖掘的深度已经到达了对人性拷问的程度。
印象最深的是女主问女孩子你到底和不和我走的时候。
剧情在两个女人的对峙下达到情绪的高潮。
用女性主义的角度去剖析它是很简单的。
无论是开头女主因为热爱工作,而没能得到女儿的监护权;还是故事发生地点是一个男性占大多数的公司;被虐待女孩的照片成为缺失女性权利最有力的佐证。
对,我说这是很简单的观点因为我觉得女性主义已经被用烂了。
研究生什么都可以套上一套理论。
即使有理有据,但只是乘前人之荫。
所以对于女主和女二的对峙上升到对人性懦弱的展现,作为观众表示十分惊喜。
要说主旨精神,这部片子和真探的基调十分相似。
都是质疑人类在罪恶面前是否会屈服于权利和诱惑。
描绘的人性阴暗面又和处女之死挺像的。
处女们和妓女们在影片的最后都没有得到拯救。
所以这就是为什么我看完这片子心情非常低落。
最让我惊讶的是看完这个发生在完全不一样世界里的故事居然让我想到了发生在我身边的事。
这种屈服于权利,为了暂时的安全而放弃自己的自尊的情节屡屡皆是。
最明显的例子就是装逼了。
最近又和朋友们讨论起了优越感的来源与生成。
来到这辈子读过的第三个大学,我越来越发现人性的弱点都是相似的。
好像贬低别人变成了一种天经地义的事情。
做什么说什么都可以成为划分自己与他人界限的理由。
而因为害怕被孤立和不认可,更是可以牺牲自己的灵魂和自尊与现实世界的既定价值做交换。
在电影是用灵魂交换命,那还可以理解。
至少女孩子还曾经有勇气站出来指认凶手。
我是不懂身边的男男女女。
电影里女孩子的代价是生命啊。
在极度的恐惧之下做出不明智的决定会让人觉得是一种悲剧的美。
换作是我,自问也不一定能把握住自己最后仅存的理智。
但身边衣食无忧的年轻人的心理状态我就不甚了解了。
牺牲自己牺牲得毫无价值和美感。
是不是我挖掘出他们的美感我就能写出剧本了。
想到这个就心好累。
不想再写影评了。
不知道还要读多少书才能理解他们。
还要担着有生之年都可能理解不了的准备。
不多说了。
我看书去了。
看过之后,感触颇深,在现实生活中,我们原以为的世界,是和平的公正的,但是这种现象可能只存在于你的国度,通过影片,我们知道原来世界并不如你想像的那样,原来人性也不如你想像的那样,当你感受到那是一种非人类所能干出的事情,却被很多人干了,当你以为世界女性在新世纪的社会地位有所提升时,你却被现实所打败,根据真实事件改编,现实是如此的残酷,人性被无情的践踏,所谓的世界和平卫士,在背地里干着破坏和平的事情,当有人想打破这一现状时,才发现,不是上级不知道,而是上级从一开始都知道,这难道不是在讽刺吗?
所有的一切源于纵容,在公众的心中,这个机构是如此的为人民着想,为世界着想,但背面却是如此的肮脏与不堪,这部影片在暗讽但也在警示,不要欺骗我们,因为秘密不会永远都是秘密。
同时,这其中也有女权思想,女性被贩卖呗迫害,为什么男性没有,这是影片所表达的,人人都应收到尊重,人人都应该平等的活在这个世界上。
昨晚看了这部电影,非常的让人不安,压抑。
从片头一直到结局,看着腐败无能的当地警察,安保公司的UN维和人员,打着人道主义旗号的各国联合国维和部队,在腐败脆弱不堪的体制下,纵容不法分子甚至参与其中,充当保护伞。
电影的结局非常的现实,失足妇女并没有因为偶尔一两个有正义感的告密者而得到救赎;联合国组织,一个让多数人敬重的国际组织。
也躲不过成为各个利益集团谋私的工具。
影片中某个UN高层还堂而皇之的说战争妓女是合法的,这究竟是怎样的残忍。
豁免权(immunity)不是免罪权(impunity),联合国是在奥斯维辛集中营的尸骨上建立起来的,要维护尊严必须要做的是不使联合国因强暴那些我们必须保护的人而遗臭万年。
这些事情老实讲在天朝每天都有发生,法律不能惩治恶棍歹徒,反而成为了好人的枷锁,所以我一直认为如果有一天真的司法效率和能力堕落到谷底,那么私力救济就是义务。
去年加拿大和德国合拍了一部 The Whistleblower。
讲波黑地区妇女被贩卖和遭受性暴力问题。
实际上这些贩卖和暴力的活动却由美国官方以及与美政府合作的私人公司背后操作。
其实影片最后表达的还是这场抗争以失败告终,这个世界还是男权的社会。
尽管有那么一些人被开除了,尽管katie最后把证据拿出来公布于众了,不要告诉我在波黑那些地方女孩们已经不再饱受欺凌。
有战争的地方就有军队,有军队的地方就需要军妓。
可是,有哪一些人自愿来作军妓的,于是产生了贩卖和暴力。
美国一向以维护世界和平为幌子践踏他国主权,把军队开到那里,产生直接的种族拼杀,衍生出各种复杂的社会问题。
由真实事件改编的好片子, 蕾切尔·薇兹 和 莫妮卡·贝鲁奇两大美女的演出,也透露了她们不只是利用身体来博得演出的机会,证明她们也在思考作为有影响力的女性应该传播的信息和价值应该是什么。
隐藏在世界某些角落的晦垢,只有用作为女性的眼能够看到。
这个片子告诉了我们,只要人的存在是为了欲望,那么当他有了权力了以后就会利用自己的权力来满足自己的欲望。
如果没有一个国家体制来制约这种权力那么必将形成有组织的犯罪集团。
光靠政策来说服大众,只是一个美丽的谎言!
看完电影,自然很不好受,回味全片外加百度,试图推测梳理出此片极大的信息量和逻辑,发现不明白之处还是很多的。
大致学习了一下波黑战争起因是波斯尼亚克族人和克罗地亚人闹独立,而塞尔维亚人主张统一,从史实里看,感觉塞尔维亚族人的政治智慧相当差——抵制投票就不投票反而让波斯尼亚人和克罗地亚人联手合法获得独立自主权,并获得国际社会的认可,但塞族人却骁勇好战,崇尚武力,复仇心切——在国际社会当中,几乎孤立无援的情况下,还和另两族打了4年多仗,并且在被北约连续轰炸死伤无数后,发起了血腥的斯雷布雷尼察大屠杀——更加坐实了塞尔维亚族人无法无可统一国家的事实。
影片中,刚到波黑的嘉芙在断壁残垣上一扫而过看到:SREBRENICA NEVER FORGET,就直接点出波黑战争带来的破坏,不仅是建筑物还有人心。
——斯雷布雷尼察(塞尔维亚语:Сребреница)大屠杀是屠杀者塞尔维亚族和被屠杀者穆斯林族波斯尼亚族都难以忘怀和逾越的民族鸿沟,我留意到,这是用英语而不是当地语言写的,我尽力理解这只是电影拍摄需要。
穆斯林妇女受丈夫虐待案再次突出了这个矛盾,开始按我的理解是:反对处理此事并说“穆斯林活该”的是坏警察,塞尔维亚族人;而嘉芙的得力助手则自我介绍是波斯尼亚族人。
——这样才能说通坏警察是带着民族仇恨而大肆贩卖并残酷对待波斯尼亚族少女的,但后来想想民族矛盾如此之深的两族人可能在同一片土地上生活,在同一个地方共事吗?
如果坏警察不是出于民族仇恨,那就是腐败和经济的解释了。
就是更加悲哀的人性无底线了。
影片主要塑造了一系列女性形象,除了嘉芙,还有几个女性形象也很出彩。
拉亚来自单身家庭,看得出家教甚严,所以在片头她并没有跟鲁芭去“打工”,不幸的是,她最终被uncle-in-law卖走了,她的uncle-in-law在给她拍证件照时,被她的阿姨撞见了,从夫妇两人的表情里看得出,阿姨明白会发生什么事,责备地看着丈夫,但被丈夫的眼神制止,后来的情节看来,阿姨应该为此后悔而责怪丈夫却挨了不少打,即便知道事情可能会败露,但阿姨还是赞助了拉亚妈妈去找拉亚的路费。
——悲哀,却让人还是能相信点人性,至少女性还有那么一点底线。
拉亚暂时脱离危险时,向嘉芙打听鲁芭的下落,而鲁芭在看到拉亚的遭遇时也流露出忏悔和痛苦,年轻姑娘们在屈辱的空间里相互提醒照顾,有的还心存着希望,不管是逃离还是还清债务。
——都是悲哀里的一点光亮。
但也很脆弱。
相较而言,莫妮卡贝鲁奇扮演的照章办事的联合国官员,简直就是对联合国官员无人性的控诉了吧。
我纠结地既不相信联合国里只有美国人(嘉芙)有人性,而欧洲人(贝鲁奇)就没有,也相信欧洲人确实是可能讲究规则到不可理喻的。
我不太理解的是:拉亚作为一度愿意指证的证人被掳走,而后嘉芙在酒吧里重又找到她,仅仅出于她曾是被掳走的证人,应该就能直接带离而不需要征求她本人意见吧。
嘉芙助手说的理由是不太成立的。
从人口贩卖的条线理解,这是一条相当成熟的产业链,丰富的货源(战争导致男少女多),伪造的证件,运送途径,销售场所(叫保护费而受到警察保护的酒吧)和消费群体(并不只是警察、联合国官员、维和部队等),最后还有一个收容所。
姑娘们失去人身自由、受疾病侵害,有时还会受非人的对待。
嘉芙的出现打乱了这条井井有条的产业链,攻克的点是:警察、联合国官员、维和部队等不仅是消费常客,甚至还参与买卖过程,提供保护和帮助。
我相信,即便是没有官方机构的参与,这始终会是战后重建甚至是任何国家的一个地下产业,虽然影片里在收容所工作的老妇人说:战争导致男少女多,还会有谁来享用这些女孩?
——但色情业是建立在人性的贪欲和经济基础不平等上的。
嘉芙作为孤胆英雄,义愤填膺地揭露黑幕,输出了尊重人权、自由独立的价值观,但从根本上讲,美国及北约从外部介入他国主权,煽动各方势力,通过推动民族独立而把一个国家搞得万劫不复,国家经济上一塌糊涂,社会秩序一塌糊涂,社会构成一塌糊涂,再送来点小小的人权恩惠,这真能打动人心吗?
而所谓的国际警察、维和部队、联合国办事人员,一个国家的治理不得不需要外国人起劲解决,这对当地人难道真的是人道的吗?
还是是为了给某些国家的人创造就业机会和赚钱机会呢?
别忘记,嘉芙2000年前后去到波黑,可是领一年10万美金薪水的。
而一个波黑姑娘被保养一年的卖身价是3000美金,还能讲价。
制片人希望能让观众受到片中那些被迫卖淫女性受到残暴对待的镜头影响,所以增加了拉亚一角,来给予这些受害人一张真实的面孔。
电影首次在多伦多放映期间,一位观众因片中的暴力镜头晕倒,大部分强奸的镜头因此遭到删减。
对此薇兹表示:我完全理解,让人看这些东西的确太痛苦了。
真实情况还要惨烈得多。
我的意思是,第一个接触这些青年女性的人的故事中我能够告诉你的还只有这个“低调”的版本,如果你能够接受这样的内容。
不过,这不是纪录片,你不希望(在里面)毁掉谁。
你只想阐明一些事情,它的实际情况还要惨上百倍。
联合国秘书长潘基文主持了电影的一次放映,并承诺会采取措施,防止联合国工作人员参与色情人口贩卖活动。
对此波克瓦克回应:“不幸的是,恐惧已经广泛散布。
纠正之路将会很复杂,并且无法速战速决。
”她还表示,除波斯尼亚外,维和人员在尼日利亚、科索沃、布隆迪、塞拉利昂、刚果、利比里亚、柬埔寨、伊拉克、阿富汗、海地、哥伦比亚、几内亚和苏丹都存在侵犯人权的行径。
康达基对此表示自己打算保持乐观,希望电影的放映能够“让人们对联合国参与性交易人口贩卖及其它犯罪活动展开真正的讨论和思考。
”但她也担心电影可能不会产生预期的持久影响:“我知道我们会听到很多说法,说自本片上映以来都已经采该了哪些措施,但到目前为止这些都还只是说辞。
实际情况已经出现升级。
”《告密者》在院线上映后,《卫报》报道称有联合国官员试图淡化电影中描绘的事件,并且打击波斯尼亚境内人口贩卖的行动已遭中止。
戴阳国际发言人阿什利·伯克(Ashley Burke)称:我没看过那部电影,所以无法对其内容作出评价,但是我可能告诉大家,我们联系影片发行商试图了解电影的更多信息时得知,影片不是改编自波克瓦克女士的著作,而是是受到她经历启发所做的‘虚构戏剧化呈现’。
我们也没有威胁采取法律行动来要求他们不得在片中使用公司的真实名称。
很抱歉,以上是我转载的内容,我觉得这更有一定的说服力首先,电影里出现的公司名称戴阳国际是真实存在的,并且戴阳国际也一直在参与联合国的各种事物(业务),最终联合国秘书长潘也组织观看了此片,相信会有所动作!
但.....弱肉抢食
Talking With Kathryn Bolkovac About Her Experience as The WhistleblowerPosted: 08/16/11 07:48 PM ETAfter seeing (and reviewing) The Whistleblower, I contacted Kathryn Bolkovac, whose story is the basis of the movie, and interviewed her. Her answers speak for themselves, but also give such a sense of her persona, grit and determination.FOSTER: You were faced with a situation where the people you worked with were engaged in something very shocking. Do you have any insight as to how or why they got involved with trafficking?I really do not think there is clear cut answer for this. Everyone is an individual and is accountable to their individual behavior and potential illegal actions they committed and continue to commit in current missions. I think most people are truly just plain complicit in their thinking and tend to not get involved or look the other way to avoid any form of accountability, especially if they think that something does not directly affect them for their position. Then there is the group of people who can easily be swayed to join in on a pack mentality, who are morally and mentally weak or ignorant. When conditions are right as they have been and still are in many overseas missions around the world, or if they think they will not be caught or judged then it is easy for them to engage in illegal and corrupt behavior. They try to justify and minimize their actions. Finally, there are individuals who are just plain evil and corrupt, they see the money making potential of preying on the helpless and needy, and exploit every opportunity they can to make a buck, especially in an industry that involves sex. They are very good at dehumanizing, denial, and lying about what is going on. FOSTER: What do you think needs to be done to address the trafficking issue? What can government do?The trafficking issue at large is too complex to tackle with sweeping reform. There are so many different types of human trafficking each with different dynamics of funding the corruption. Obviously, many adults choose to be trafficked... or illegally transported across many borders to escape horrendous conditions in their own countries. These issues cannot be convoluted with organized criminal syndicates who are providing services to internationals all over the world, in the form of trafficking for forced prostitution. They are involved in the recruitment, abuse, desensitization, and sale of human flesh, into international missions as sex workers. This is what I want to discuss and what I think we can make a huge impact on based on my experiences as a former law enforcement officer, former UN employee, former representative of our U.S. government overseas, and as a former employee of one of the largest private government contractors in the world DynCorp. FOSTER: What can our government do?First, in the short term, the United States needs to take a serious look at why we are willing to allow private companies to engage in the profession of law enforcement. Government contractors are a needed and viable means to get many logistical and re-construction efforts accomplished. They are not a viable means for a protection force or as a mechanism for the use in training law enforcement officers in emerging democracies. Law enforcement is not a business. Policing is a calling. Does anyone really believe that private corporations are in this policing and operational mission business for anything but the money? We need to set an example with our own federal police selection units, perhaps via the Department of Justice as an example, why can we not recruit and most importantly train our own community police officers before we send them into these missions? My book accurately describes the pathetic training offered by the private company who sent me overseas, which I am sure was heavily subsidized with my tax dollars. It was a disgrace; none of us had even the minimum knowledge or idea of what we were supposed to be doing once we got into Bosnia.If we are to continue to send "rent a cops " overseas with inadequate knowledge and inadequate protections from corrupt private companies, some of whom had serious questionable policing backgrounds we might want to stop and think about how this damages our reputation and our goals. The private company who fired me had free reign to treat me however they saw fit, no one was in authority to stop them. They were exempt from all U.S. government accountability and have never been held accountable for what they did to me to this day. How has this changed? It has not. Second, get the Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (CEJA) out of committee and get it passed. It has been more than 12 years overdue. [NOTE: CEJA would allow the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute government contractors and employees for certain crimes committed overseas. It would complement the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA), which provides similar criminal jurisdiction over Department of Defense employees and contractors but does not clearly apply to U.S. contractors working overseas for other federal agencies.]Third, make government contractors accountable for their employee actions, by putting a clause in their contracts that require them to facilitate and allow oversight of both external and internal investigations by outside government agencies, when probable cause exists that employees are suspected, or implicated in criminal offenses. They must cooperate in the facilitation of prosecutions. They can no longer just fire people, and hope the problem goes away, which automatically curtails any further investigation. Fourth, set examples by having the means available to prosecute and convict with meaningful sentences. FOSTER: What can individuals do?Learn, read, report, and stop burying your heads in the sand. Many of the people involved in these crimes could be your next door neighbor. Get local law enforcement initiatives started, and ask your police chiefs this question. What kind of training is being offered to your new recruits and officers on the streets to recognize and investigate all forms of human trafficking?Do you think a local police chief in the hills of Northern New Mexico, or in the farming community of southern Illinois, is even going to know what we are talking about? Does the local hotel have young female Hispanics working in the housekeeping department? They do not speak English, they have no documents, does he know what wage they are being paid and in what form? Think about it. I have been in these places have you?FOSTER: Many of the women and girls who are trafficked are promised jobs that don't materialize. What do you think would be effective to get the word out to them so that fewer of them fall prey to these types of promises?The only effect we can have on this is to stop the demand. FOSTER: How did you sustain yourself? Continued faith in our justice system, lots of hard workouts and sweat, many tears and my husband would make me a strong gin tonic with lots of lemon and ice once in a while.Follow Stephenie Foster on Twitter: www.twitter.com/StephenieFoster
看到电影后半段越来越感觉到痛心,当权利自然得达到利益的互相节点后,便默许了一些罪恶的联盟,更玷污的是还穿着制服打着正义的旗号,关键的是人人都知道是错误,而为了自保都硬是要排挤真正的正义,我不知道为什么,看到让那些被拐卖的女人作证劝说过来的时候,拉雅看着背后那些光顾他们的制服客人时,不是愤怒而是害怕,最终逃走的命运是死在枪口之下,我终于明白了恐惧的心理才是麻醉一个人的良方,我同样不知道为什么,当时我想到的是火烧圆明园,3万的所谓八国联军,在我泱泱大国面前可以横冲直撞,而今天所有的主流媒体再介绍的时候都是谴责,或说清政府的无能,为何不深究深层次的问题?
火烧圆明园,为何我国民众不爱国阻止了呢?
这也许就是出于拉雅的恐惧,对衙门的不信任,对列强的害怕,如果我再说,火烧后,夷为平地的是周围的居民,又会有何感想呢?
麻木的教育是人们没有了独立思考的能力,沦为宋、明一样的子民,然后再给元、清冠上少数民族了以安慰内心,呵呵。
唉,说得有点跑题了。
反对的声音是善的开端,和谐的声音是恶的温床。
一部很沉重的电影.....人贩子,自古就存在的职业,是性本善,还是性本恶,赤裸裸的。
任何缺乏监督的权力都必然会孳生对权力的滥用。有良知的好电影。莫妮卡·贝鲁奇老得让人触目惊心!
品质4星,主题精神4星。
那些禽兽不把女人当人看,当畜生!!!贩卖人口来虐待,被卖的女孩实在是太可怜了。。。揪心!
看的太沉重了,现实原本就还有那么多黑暗和无奈,可惜导演没把力度完全展现出来,松散了一些。Rachel姐姐表现正常,卷福出场太让人没想到了,尤其说他俩是少数的美国人这句台词时,明明两个大腐国演员啊!
这就是你们宣传的人权? 道貌岸然
唉,感情不够强烈
小心你的亲友。
拍的太小心,莫妮卡贝鲁奇的角色有啥存在的必要么。
完全是冲着本尼迪克去的
蛮老套的,女主人物刻画也很表面,只是这种题材的电影也不太好说拍得不好吧。。我对这个世界的认识又全面了一点儿
感觉很像不朽的园丁,不过变成了薇姿一人的独角戏。影片从头到尾笼罩在压抑之中,让人看不见希望。道德在集体利益面前变得一文不值。喜欢的还可以看FAIR GAME.
垃圾! 無計,為左睇Luke!
boring
弄美国的
我从来都很难理解会有人说世界是公平的,可能是一时高兴昏了头。
还行吧
中途惊险看不下去的电影之一
莫妮卡贝鲁奇可能是她同辈女演员里老得最快的一个..