Sunday, November 3, 2013

The Whistleblower (2010)

Caution: This Might Contain Spoilers!
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This film was inspired from the account of Kathryn Bolkovac. In 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac was a Nebraska police officer who decided to go to post-war Bosnia and work as a UN peacekeeper with DynCorp International. While there, she discovers that several of the other UN peacekeepers, native police, and others are involved with the sex trafficking trade. Bolkovac struggles to fight against the corrupt system.

This film was directed by Larysa Kondracki. This film isn't based off the novel written by Bolkovac, but is instead based off her account. This film deals with a serious subject matter of human sex trafficking, and does not shy away from the subject. DynCorp International, the company mainly mention in the film, have spoken in response that they will try to stop such acts from happening, and have in some aspects downplayed the accuracy of the film a little. The story follows Bolkovac through her troubling discoveries and her attempts to stop it. The story also shows how an international institute functions, and the difficulties of handling accountability due to diplomatic immunity. Since the film's story tries to keep true to the accounts, the film has an unhappy ending in that that the villains are not punished. The story also doesn't allow the antagonists any characterization other than being bad. There's no lifting of the veil to see their failing morales. There is a lot of graphic violence in this film, but it is not the worst that I've seen in several modern hollywood films. It does use the violence to engrain in audiences minds how bad this situation is. It can be too much for humanist and christian audiences. Rachel Weisz played the role of Kathryn Bolkovac. She did amazing creating a heroine that audiences could relate to. She pulled the audience into her desperation to end the sex trafficking in Bosnia and save the as many girls as possible.

I give this film 5 out of 5 stars! It is a good dramatic film that keeps a truth about the horrors that Bolkovac was facing. The violence might be overplayed, but it is fitting.

Answer to last blog: Director Chris Wedge, Epic, directed the film Robots.

Que: What British television show has Larysa Kondracki directed episodes for?

Sherlock
Copper
Downton Abbey
Being Human

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