I wanted to but couldn't!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Admirable film.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This movie is horrifyingly one sided. Effeminate male and masculine female "experts" spouting moralistic viewpoints is not a documentary, it's propaganda. Here are a few of the problems I noticed in the first 30 minutes:1) The shots that always accompany the diatribes of aforementioned "experts" are of women walking around Seattle dressed as a lot of ladies do when heading out to clubs. In other words, you are to assume that all scantily clad women are prostitutes. Oops, I mean prostituted women (more on that gem in a bit).2) The movie treats sex slavery and prostitution as the same animal. This is a false premise. By removing this distinction, they remove the women from any and all culpability for their actions. This fallacy is a nice segue into the next problem.3) The real root cause of the sex trade (according to this movie) is the men. The problem isn't girls getting hooked on drugs and then prostituting themselves to support their habit, girls running away from home and becoming homeless thus necessitating prostitution to supply that pesky eating habit, or a litany of other reasons women may choose to sell themselves for sex. Nope, the problem is that johns are terrible, horrible beasts incapable of curbing their instinct to reproduce. 4) Other than getting them to tell their extra juicy child abuse stories, the filmmakers have no regard for these women. In one very telling scene, the star of the movie, "director" Jason Pamer, Asks a john of he thinks the "prostituted woman" (who is off camera but obviously in close proximity) wants to be there. When the john responds that he doesn't know, SuperRighteousMan!!!!! (Jason Pamer) takes it upon himself to tell the john that she doesn't want to be there instead of asking the girl personally.5) The sex workers in this movie are all referred to as "prostituted women" which goes right back to that "all women are victims" mentality that pervades the film.The best possible way that this movie could have concluded would have been if Gloria Steinem had made a cameo in which she sold herself to the highest bidder just to show that women have the capability to make their own decisions.

I live in Seattle, and I watch a lot of documentaries. This one happened to come up & watched it because it had good reviews. I had no idea this was happening in areas I am in all the time. I also had no idea that my cousin Joel Banks was in it - he's known me since I was a baby, and I used to play with his oldest daughter & son all the time growing up. It is heart breaking hearing that these girls don't think they have any value in life. The documentary is worth the watch. From a critical standpoint the documentary is done well, but not fantastically. The subject matter pulls you in though & the story is not boring to watch.

Must see. Impactful, world changing and life changing. One of the best documentaries I've seen on human trafficking. Can't believe it's happening in our backyard. I've always thought "human trafficking" was "out there", it happens in other countries/cities and not here. I was shocked.The people really spent their time researching, documenting and risked their lives telling the stories of these women. Great props to the courage of these women coming forth and share their stories/struggles so to bring light into this ugliness in our city and world.We gotta do something. This is not right. If it's happening here in Seattle, I wonder what other areas have this, and how much we need to bring light into all of those areas.

(Not sure if its a spoiler but I don't want to chance it)Let me start out by saying that my rating of a 9 is actually more like a 10 because I don't rate documentaries higher than that because they lack the production value needed for a 10 rating. None the less this was such a great documentary that will completely change your mind about the way you think, look, and feel about that girl "walking the streets".I went to see this film knowing that we had a problem with prostitution and the sex trade in America just like every other country. I knew there were girls and boys who were kidnapped and taken here and other countries to be enslaved in the sex trade. My grasp of the over all extent of the levels of prostitution and enslavement were way off though.I thought any person who was actually enslaved was one of those girls in some seedy whore house or locked in the basement of a "massage parlor". I did not even think about the fact that these girls walking the street, or in the films online, or any of them in fact could be held without their will for fear of their life if they try to leave. Or after years of just being worn down emotionally to the point where they don't feel they have any other option. This film was a real eye opener. And hearing these women telling their stories of how they ended up in this life without their willingness was completely heart wrenching. It's something that will haunt me till the day I die. And I'm glad that it will. Because I don't think anyone should ever forget the injustice that is happening in this world. We all need to step up to make sure this cruelty around the world stops.