Review of Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011) by Danton M — 19 Oct 2014

This is a truly eye-opening movie about human trafficking around the world, including the United States. Some of the numbers of trafficked women and children are astounding. I have only two issues with the show.

First, several scenes, most memorably a dramatic kidnapping of a woman off the streets, are re-enactments. Interviews with actual victims are excellent, but I see re-enactments as a cheap way of heightening the drama of the movie.

Second, all the "Jesus-is-with-me" testimonials at the end of the movie finally caused me to turn it off before finishing it. The hard work by people who risk their lives to save these women and children seems too often ignored in the speakers' eagerness to give credit to god for their salvation from prostitution.

This is certainly a movie worth watching, though, and one that will stay with me for a long time.