這個(gè)片子告訴了我們,只要人的存在是為了欲望,那么當(dāng)他有了權(quán)力了以后就會(huì)利用自己的權(quán)力來(lái)滿足自己的欲望。
如果沒(méi)有一個(gè)國(guó)家體制來(lái)制約這種權(quán)力那么必將形成有組織的犯罪集團(tuán)。
光靠政策來(lái)說(shuō)服大眾,只是一個(gè)美麗的謊言!
Talking With Kathryn Bolkovac About Her Experience as The Whistleblower
Posted: 08/16/11 07:48 PM ET
After 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.
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www.twitter.com/StephenieFoster 剛剛看完告密者,是由木乃伊女主演的,看完很郁悶。真的有點(diǎn)像口語(yǔ)老師Paul說(shuō)的,人長(zhǎng)大了,就喜歡看深刻的電影了 。
故事的主題是以波黑內(nèi)戰(zhàn),聯(lián)合國(guó)維和部隊(duì)人員參與販賣人口,最后英雄女主角拯救局面的故事情節(jié)演的。剛開(kāi)始的女主,就是一心為著錢(qián)去的。當(dāng)上級(jí)軍官宣揚(yáng)著正義和平的時(shí)候,女主沒(méi)有多少投入,反而是周圍的男隊(duì)友們很亢奮。
但是隨著剝繭抽絲的敘事過(guò)程,事實(shí)浮出了水面,之所以在這樣一個(gè)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)國(guó)度,能有這樣多的酒吧生存下來(lái),服務(wù)的不是本國(guó)的男士,而是維和部隊(duì)的軍官。 收容所的老奶奶說(shuō):"戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)讓我們國(guó)家的男人都死了一半,你說(shuō)這些女孩是為誰(shuí)服務(wù)的!“說(shuō)的是那么的平靜,但是我的內(nèi)心卻很波瀾。
女主在劇中說(shuō)了這樣的話,她說(shuō),
-- 以前在家里,我們分局有25個(gè)人,我了解他們每一個(gè)人,知道他們的一切,他們的家人。
--原本我以為是和一群精英來(lái)到這里工作,現(xiàn)在我甚至都不知道他們到底是誰(shuí)?!
西方社會(huì)一直認(rèn)為,人之初,性本惡,原來(lái)我不這么認(rèn)為,近些年我接觸的事情使我慢慢深刻地理解了這句話的內(nèi)涵。在西方這樣一個(gè)發(fā)達(dá),法律體制健全的社會(huì)里,每個(gè)人在這樣的體系中生活,沒(méi)有機(jī)會(huì),也沒(méi)有理由讓你做出出乎意料的行為,至少對(duì)大部分人是這樣的。加之開(kāi)明的價(jià)值觀和先進(jìn)的的城市化進(jìn)程使得很多東西不會(huì)引起恐慌和圍觀。但是即使這樣紳士和文明的人類被放逐到薩拉熱窩這樣的動(dòng)蕩地帶,沒(méi)有法治,種族間斗毆,社會(huì)信仰的不健全。人性中那種齷齪,極端,邪惡的念頭就會(huì)被只能各種松弛的約束帶釋放出來(lái),原來(lái)我們不敢說(shuō)的敢說(shuō)了,原來(lái)我們不敢做的敢做了。甚至變本加厲,異常極端,電影中出現(xiàn)的很多情節(jié)讓你感覺(jué)仿佛不是去酒吧找樂(lè)子,更像是對(duì)很多之前禁忌的獵奇,而無(wú)辜的女孩就成為其中的玩偶,他們的痛苦就像是反應(yīng)的結(jié)果,出現(xiàn)才是正常的,才夠滿足他們的好奇。
經(jīng)歷了千辛萬(wàn)苦,想救出的女孩終究還是死了,當(dāng)做了殺雞儆猴中的雞,看著挺心酸,但是我覺(jué)得確實(shí)最好的結(jié)局。她所遭受的痛苦,是那種死亡可以替代的,死亡還是平靜的,折磨卻沒(méi)有止境??赡?,我是說(shuō)可能,拯救出的她們沒(méi)有技能,沒(méi)有能力,或許還有很多又會(huì)做回老本行,但是,那種存在的尊嚴(yán)儼然可以被稱之為人?。?!這很重要~~~
3.5 適合給那些喜歡把 ‘你怎樣,你的中國(guó)就怎樣’ 掛在嘴邊的人看看,并且問(wèn)問(wèn)他們以此類推能否得到 ‘你怎樣,你的世界就怎樣’ 的結(jié)論 。 順便扯點(diǎn)兒有的沒(méi)的,人類對(duì)于女性的不尊重遠(yuǎn)比對(duì)gay的歧視要嚴(yán)重得多...
毫無(wú)亮點(diǎn)。導(dǎo)演沒(méi)什么風(fēng)格,劇本又過(guò)于中庸,主題也過(guò)于老套了,就連蕾切爾薇茲的一個(gè)人的表演也沒(méi)有強(qiáng)大到成撐起這部電影,畢竟這就是她一個(gè)人的獨(dú)角戲。故事題材不錯(cuò),但切入點(diǎn)還是太老土了,前半部分節(jié)奏紊亂,后面高潮戲份的節(jié)奏還行,但故事的結(jié)尾讓人很失落,歸于現(xiàn)實(shí)便無(wú)解了吧?!铩铩?/p>
開(kāi)頭有些悶,但隨后劇情變得越來(lái)越緊湊深刻,看了讓人心情十分沉重的電影,那些表面光鮮的人性背后隱藏著極其惡劣的獸性,一個(gè)黑暗到無(wú)以復(fù)加的世界!蕾切爾·薇茲的演技好的沒(méi)得說(shuō)!
看得很難受的一部電影,直到最后她們也沒(méi)有解脫出來(lái)。同時(shí)看到生命的差異性,我們生活在歌舞升平中,還有那么多人生活在水深火熱中,要好好珍惜生活。
比恐怖片還恐怖的現(xiàn)實(shí)世界,真實(shí)事件改編的官方參與女性人口販賣案件,而最后也只是媒體曝光了一下而已!女主發(fā)現(xiàn)真相后行走,路過(guò)那些知道真相甚至是販賣參與者的男性的那一段,拍出了女性的絕望,文明、法律的窗戶紙下,聯(lián)合國(guó)又怎樣,人類對(duì)女性的奴役沒(méi)有停止過(guò),并且像是公開(kāi)的秘密。
好片!
Strongly recommend, you should go to watch to find what the fuckup happened in our world, it's the shame of humanity and human.
那些禽獸不把女人當(dāng)人看,當(dāng)畜生?。?!販賣人口來(lái)虐待,被賣的女孩實(shí)在是太可憐了。。。揪心!
如果我們都生活在那個(gè)人性泯滅的少數(shù)人當(dāng)權(quán)的社會(huì)結(jié)果會(huì)怎樣。答案是:我們已經(jīng)生活在那樣的社會(huì)了。
為真實(shí)
影片開(kāi)篇有點(diǎn)沉悶 后三分之一漸漸給力。一句話:你知道的太多了?!局品睜斅赌樇s一分半鐘,醬油打的得心應(yīng)手。
挺好的題材拍弱了
寫(xiě)實(shí)片 對(duì)人口販賣有了重新認(rèn)識(shí)??吹阶詈蟾杏X(jué)很絕望。
非常有震撼力的片子,開(kāi)場(chǎng)貌似很商業(yè)片,但中段起到最后高潮讓我完全入戲,結(jié)局看得很壓抑~坐到字幕完全放完電影院亮燈才離場(chǎng),發(fā)現(xiàn)還有十來(lái)人也還未退場(chǎng),回家的路上有給五星的沖動(dòng)~~非要說(shuō)拍攝手法劇本確實(shí)沒(méi)有什么特別的,但敘事清晰表演出彩故事本身很有意義,這個(gè)人覺(jué)得足夠了~~推薦此片~~
我的心被打爆拉婭頭的那顆子彈撕碎了。so fucking unfire.
Despite the impression left by the film, the failure of peacekeeping missions to protect the local population is not simply because of a lacck of integrity of UN staff.
其實(shí)看到BC有接這部片子就大概知道這一定是個(gè)好題材。的確好題材,可惜導(dǎo)演真是爛到讓人倒胃口,雖然沒(méi)學(xué)過(guò)導(dǎo)演拍攝這種東西,但是以一個(gè)觀看者的角度來(lái)說(shuō),這尼瑪都想把鏡頭扯出屏幕外扔在地上用腳跺碎好么!兩顆星全給好題材,一顆星給演員們,不偏不倚。剪輯的人你直接死五分鐘去吧。
真實(shí)而殘酷,看過(guò)的關(guān)于人口販賣的片子中,這部是情節(jié)最丑陋的結(jié)局是最無(wú)奈的了,誰(shuí)叫你斗爭(zhēng)的對(duì)象是整個(gè)國(guó)家甚至聯(lián)合國(guó)呢。。。做著這樣齷齪事情的竟然是打折和平旗號(hào)的維和部隊(duì),這世界還有什么是可以相信的嗎。。。這部片完全是雷切爾的個(gè)人秀,發(fā)現(xiàn)她越來(lái)越適合這種獨(dú)立干練的角色了。。。
Kathryn的獨(dú)角戲,正義永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法擊敗利益。以前怎樣,現(xiàn)在還是那樣。真實(shí)改編,心里承受力不強(qiáng)者勿看。
任何缺乏監(jiān)督的權(quán)力都必然會(huì)孳生對(duì)權(quán)力的濫用。有良知的好電影。莫妮卡·貝魯奇老得讓人觸目驚心!