The theme of the movie is "human trafficking" and it depicts this theme very well. It feels real. It made me develop strong feelings at the beginning for the victims. I like how the movie portrays it in a way that the characters at the beginning are not aware of the situation. However the situation worsens and the main character (Matues) sees a possibility to use it at his advantage and forms a close tie to the bad guy. At first he wanted to gain the trust of Mr. Luca so that he can help his fellow captives to regain their freedom, however the line gets more and more blurry and Mateus starts to execute his newly gained power over his fellow workers. In the end he has become a part of the system even though he set out to destroy that system from the inside out.
The charcters are hard to relate. We are fed some background information but these don't make me understand the character better. Starting from the point where Mateus is part of the system, I lost the understanding for his internal struggle. It wasn't depicted as strongly as it was possibly intended. So it felt like a completly new character at this time.
The charcters are hard to relate. We are fed some background information but these don't make me understand the character better. Starting from the point where Mateus is part of the system, I lost the understanding for his internal struggle. It wasn't depicted as strongly as it was possibly intended. So it felt like a completly new character at this time.