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The movie "Children in the Dark" to be introduced today is based on the novel of the same name by Korean writer Liang Shiri. On the surface, a tourist destination full of travelers, backpackers, and photographers, the darkness behind the scenes is creepy and appalling.
Poster for the movie "Children in the Dark"
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The story takes place in Bangkok, Thailand.
A Japanese journalist, Hiroyuki Minami (later known as Minami), received a tip that a Japanese child was recently undergoing a heart transplant. This operation, not from a physically dead person, but from a healthy, living Thai child, extremely cruel and cold-blooded. In the jargon, it is called - the sacrifice of the living.
So the south began to secretly investigate the clues.
At the same time, Keiko, a human rights volunteer from Tokyo who had studied for a short time, joined a children's aid agency.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": The South investigates the trafficking of organs
The south, where the investigation has not progressed, finds rescue agencies, but the staff does not believe that there will be such a dark transaction around them.
Then, during the search for the streets, the staff of the aid station found that the daughter of a family, Alanya, had dropped out of school, and her family did not care at all, and said that she had gone out to work, and would no longer go to school in the future, and would not treat her when she fell ill.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": Teachers visit students' families
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In an old building in the city, there is an illegal place where many abducted children are imprisoned and forced to engage in illegal transactions. The slightest disobedience will be beaten; even if it is covered in blood, it will have to serve one obscene man after another with a smile.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": Imprisoned Children
A few days later, the children's aid agency received Alanya's letter.
It turned out that Alanya had been sold to a place called Chiang Rai, trapped in a place where she traded in SQ, and there were many children like her. Once you get sick, or lose your use value, you will be abandoned like garbage and left to fend for yourself. The final step in extracting surplus value is to be sold to an illegal hospital for organ removal.
Alanya also wrote in her letter that she might be sick too. Through the description in the letter, the teachers speculated that it might be AIDS.
In the current situation, there is no substantial evidence, and it is useless to find the police. And, if bad actors are let know that a letter has come out, the lives of children may not be safe, but more dangerous. After consultation, the teachers decided to go to Chiang Rai.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": Children who are abused and sick
The rescue work did not go well, and the teachers were afraid to expose their identities and bring danger to the children.
At this point, the head of the rescue center asks Keiko to return to Japan to rescue another Thai child, a "donor" who is about to undergo heart surgery. At the same time, the person in charge also went to the south to ask him to participate in the rescue work together.
However, they could not convince the Japanese patient's family, and they insisted on operating on the child.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": The person in charge convinces the south to join the rescue
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On the other side, the girl who was thrown into the garbage heap experienced a lot of hardships, and even crawled forward when she had no strength, and finally, she returned home.
However, her family was extremely indifferent to her and avoided her, and in the end, the girl was placed in a sheltered grass shed on all sides.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": The girl escapes home but can only live in the shack
In the end, the girl was too ill, and her family did not have the money to treat her, or even think about treating her, and eventually, a fire burned her out and turned her into dust.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": The girl is cremated
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On the other hand, the criminals also found themselves being targeted, so they shot and killed a male teacher. Because of the status of foreigners in the south, if the criminals injure or kill him, they will make things bigger and bigger, which makes the south escape the disaster.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": The rescue station teacher is killed by gangsters
The sick Alanya was thrown out like garbage.
Keiko, who had been guarding the garbage truck, found out and rushed over to rescue Alanya from the garbage truck.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": Alanya is finally rescued
Although Alanya was rescued, there were many more children suffering.
The aid agency held a large-scale speech conference to call on more parents to pay attention to their children's growth and health.
During the preaching, the traffickers also mixed in, and even pulled out guns, creating a great chaos.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": Traffickers make a fuss about the lecture hall
The police, who had been guarding the current situation, engaged in a fierce firefight with the traffickers, and eventually the traffickers were killed.
The thieves' dens were finally destroyed, the children were rescued, and the traffickers and clients were all caught.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": Traffickers and prostitutes are captured
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You thought the movie was over here?
No! It also has a huge reversal.
In The Memories of the South, the South is leading a boy to the hotel, and it is self-evident what he is going to do!
In the first 2 hours of the plot, the south has been running to investigate the abduction of children. As a result, the cloak of hypocrisy is torn off, and he is just a mercenary journalist! He is also the "Japanese" of the "perverted foreigner" in the mouth of the trafficker.
Stills from the movie "Children in the Dark": Nanfang takes a boy to a hotel
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Among the series of crime movies recently recommended, this movie is the most uncomfortable one in my heart since I have seen it. Its lens language is very similar to that of a documentary, without paying attention to too many film shooting techniques and techniques, and without the tension and tension that can be created. But it is also the shooting method that is close to the real world, which is even more shocking.
Our society is harmonious, but in the corners of poor countries, there is still darkness everywhere.
In the impression of tourists, Thais are smiling and hospitable, and children are playing with elephants with sunny faces; secretly, SQ trading, L children, organ trading... Every crime scene is like holding a steel cone to poke people's temples.