Years ago when a local Blockbuster store closed, I purchased an armful of DVD's for cheap, this title being one. From 2012, Trade of Innocents starring Dermot Mulroney and Mira Sorvino, tells a story on the subject of child sex trafficking in south East Asia. In all this time, I hadn't watched it until recently. It is as heart rending as you can imagine, and hit the nail on the head when defining the key issues of what keeps that horrific world afloat, the supply and demand. It also sheds some light into how that part of the world views the unspeakable - if one child can be sacrificed so others survive.
Mira Sorvino is the daughter of actor Paul Sorvino, known mostly for his role in the film Goodfellas with Dem lackey Robert Deniro. Good news, though, it turns out Paul is a Trump supporter, and is married to a Republican activist. More than an activist, she was part of GWB's staff. Is Mira herself a conservative? Well, nothing suggests she is a lib, and has only praise for her father.
Appearing in Trade Of Innocents is not the only time she has worked on a film dealing with the topic of human trafficking. Her big break in Hollywood was in the 1995 Woody Allen film Mighty Aphrodite, which earned her an Academy Award. Her role in that movie was a quirky porn actress/hooker. Her role could have been anything, right? But Allen wrote what he knows best, I suppose. Perhaps it was that experience working with a creep, plus others like him, as well as her father giving her inside tips, that kept her protected from the dark side of Hollywood throughout the rest of her career, and provided incentive to do films that warned about human trafficking.
The image of the girl hiding behind a bag of animal feed grain says it all - a child is being looked upon as a tradeable commodity.