Posted on 04/23/2016 5:01:42 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
“X-Files” star Gillian Anderson is using her television fame to combat the horrifying issue of human trafficking in the new film “Sold,” which opens Friday at DC’s Angelika Pop Up at Union Market.
Based on a novel by Patricia McCormick, adapted by Joseph Kwong and Jeffrey D. Brown (who also directs) and executive produced by Emma Thompson, the film follows a 12-year-old girl who risks everything for freedom after being trafficked from her mountain village in Nepal to a brothel in India.
“Art is a very, very powerful and effective tool,” Anderson told WTOP. “By getting to observe the experiences of one girl, she becomes the voice of the millions who don’t have a voice and the millions who don’t have a choice in their lives … When people are moved by film … they are often moved into action. It’s very difficult to see this film without asking the question at the end: What can I do?”
How did Anderson herself get involved?
“I got a call from my good friend Jeffrey Brown, who asked whether I would get involved with the movement behind the film,” Anderson said. “At the time, there wasn’t really a character in it for me. By the time they ended up filming, they had created a character based on a real-life humanitarian photographer called Lisa Kristine. But that’s a small aspect of a much bigger campaign.”
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Declared lezbo.
Still a good cause, sure.
One action item is to stop the flow of illegal aliens across our southern border. Many coyotes lure desperately poor people by making promises of jobs and riches once they reach the first world (this happens in Europe and Asia as well as the US). Then they deliver these people into slavery. So, if you want to "do" something, speak out against the lies certain people use to justify doing nothing about (or even encouraging) illegal immigration.
Well I’m glad to hear that her efforts in this project survived your scruples.
Human trafficking occurs inside the United States among citizens as well as illegals. Children are snatched away from homes while walking to and from school, and sold into the sex trade. Drug dealers first get them addicted to heroin, then groom them as prostitutes or porn stars - male and female.
Saw this movie the other night.
Sweet little country girl from Nepal has a crippled dad who can’t find work, and lives in a simple house with a thatched roof that leaks during the rainy season.
At a neighbor’s wedding, a stranger appears, a well-dressed woman who spies the little girl and discusses her future with her father. Her father is desperate and believes his daughter will find good work in the big city, money changes hands, and the girl (named Lakshmi, after the Hindu goddess of wealth and good luck) now has her fate sealed.
Off they go to Kolkata, India. Lakshmi is introduced to her new employer, the madam of “Happiness House,” a local brothel.
Lakshmi soon finds herself a prisoner, she cries out from her barred window and the American photographer (played by Gillian Anderson) takes pictures and is driven off. She reports the girl to her colleagues at Hope House, a haven for trafficked children.
Good movie, does nothing to sugar coat the horrible life the girl is thrown into. She eventually escapes to Hope House.
You’re aware this is not a homosexual friendly web site, right?
I'm all ears.
Yes. It is a terrible and complex problem, without a simple answer that will address all situations.
Read Jim’s mission statement smart ass.
Declared lezbo.
Still a good cause, sure.
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Gaijin. Presumably heterosexual.
Thinks human trafficking is bad.
But in fact I do think human trafficking is bad.
I also liked her very much. I do like her still.
I don’t think many know she’s a gay activist, and I was verrry surprised to hear it.
I was a little disappointed.
I would also take her good efforts in this a little more seriously if she had very gone around declaring herself gay, because I wouldn’t suspect any of her efforts as having a “men are all rapists, at heart”-angle to it.
I still do like her, and her acting, and I do think it sounds like a good movie.
I've been here since 2000. You, not so long.
I'm quite aware of his mission statement. Don't see anything explicitly homophobic in it. Christians are taught to love the sinner, hate the sin.
You DO know there is a moral difference between homosexuality and homosexual acts, don't you?
That is a homosexual act. Thank you for the quote.
A homosexual on the other hand, is someone with an unnatural attraction to someone of the same sex. They can, with God's help, abstain from homosexual acts and be righteous. You see the difference or not?
Good. They may still have the homosexual attraction deep in their hearts, but with God’s grace, they will learn to abstain. Only Jesus can judge what’s in the heart.
Correction: claimed lesbian sex in college (probably to gain Hollywood cred). Only visible adult relationships with men. Has a lesbian sister and is leftist, but is, herself, a declared heterosexual.
I thought God was the judge. My apologies for the self righetous remark.
I enjoyed the series of hers where she plays a Irish (I think) cop.
The x files reboot was funny at times as they poked fun at themselves.
Who she has sex with is not a concern of mine.
And of course you really are against human trafficking, the only people who aren’t are those who profit from it. I just thought it odd that you announced her sexuality, which in the context of the movie was out in left field.
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