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EDEN - USA Trafficking Film
Film Segment:
A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into
prostitution by domestic human traffickers, joins forces with her captors in a
desperate plea to survive.
Korean American teenager Hyun Jae (Jamie Chung) is not
much different from your typical teen, desiring her freedom and satisfying her
rebellious spirit by smoking cigarettes behind her parents’ shop. One night,
she sneaks into a bar with a fake ID and catches a ride home with a handsome
stranger. But she never makes it home that night. Hyun Jae is abducted and
taken to an underground brothel in the middle of the New Mexico desert, where
she is given a new name: Eden. Without time even to gasp for air, she’s thrown
into the complex industry of human trafficking, in which young women are
treated like inventory that is ordered, replaced, maintained, and accounted for
at all times.
Based on the stunning real-life experiences of Chong
Kim, EDEN is a powerful narrative that reveals one woman’s unyielding strength
and the resilience of the human spirit. Director Megan Griffiths presents a
harrowing glimpse of the human trafficking that happens within our own borders.
In a breakthrough performance, Jamie Chung is able to maneuver strenuous
situations while preserving the character’s dignity. EDEN pushes the limits of
how much a person will endure in order to survive, and compels the audience to
evaluate moral dilemmas that aren’t so cut and dry. –Malou Amparo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1734433/