Then a girl at the center, Aranya Setanan Homyamyen , is kidnapped by a child-prostitution ring and taken to a brothel in Chennai that caters to Western pedophiles. The ones who contract AIDS are tossed out for dead in the trash. A letter arrives at the center, written on tissue paper, from Aranya. Napapom, Keiko and other members of the center staff rush to Chennai. Sakamoto gives us its horrors straight, if somewhat simplistically. His most sharply defined character among the staff is a brothel scout, a former child prostitute himself, who has a certain sympathy for his charges, which somehow makes his selling of them worse.
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Your subscription plan doesn't allow commenting. To learn more see our FAQ. It looks like you're using an ad blocker. User reviews 3 Review. Top review. Over Their Heads. This film has depicted one of the darkest themes of human brutality and perversion.
A theme highly complex in a film whose length, more than two hours, seems to do it justice. However, more than two hours of this film doesn't resolve anything it poses as questions.
It ends much like where it starts: a state of conundrum. I follow this film faithfully along the long ride, and become quite frustrated at the end. It opens with an evil network in Thailand, the country I myself come from, and no explanation on the why side of the story. Some good characters depicted in this film are naive and ultimately useless. It tells us about how sexually perverse some Japanese and other foreign sex clients can be, and it tells almost nothing about the origin of such evil, especially with that twist at the end.
The pace of the film is unnatural, frustrating, and lacking of creativity. There is a great lesson to learn about film making or screen writing: do not introduce so many issues, conflicts, and contradictions and fail to address them at the end or to a point of the viewers' satisfaction. I feel I have spent so much time and got back very little. With a few characters in both nationals, we should have learned a lot more cross-culturally.
The negative feeling a Thai social worker having towards her Japanese colleague, for example, never gets resolved or deepened significantly. The issue is simply left hanging. So are the many more issues and angles presented. This film is one great effort to tackle a very important issue of humanity. This is why it gets my 6. The deducted marks are of a film forgetting to entertain and a script not so well-streamlined and the lack of coherence.
Details Edit. Release date August 2, Japan. Japanese Thai English. Children of Darkness. Geneon Entertainment Sedic.
Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 2 hours 18 minutes.
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