Movie-Trade

Trade (2007) is a movie that can be tough to watch because its subject is tough, the international sex slave trade, especially the trade in kids.

But I thought this was a well made movie, starring Kevin Klein, in an unusual role for him, that of a cop off his usual beat (insurance) but trying to uncover this sex trade. There is a reason for him being involved, but I would give away too much of the story if I revealed it. He runs into another person trying to uncover the trade route, a young Mexican man, really a boy, a thug, who accidentally got his 13 year old sister caught up in this web of illicit sex.

Some of the scenes are very disturbing, and are tough to watch. But there is a sort of redemption in the end. Not complete, or very neat, but it is there.

Trade is daring to tackle this subject, and it comes out of a journalistic expose, some of which takes place right at our border. It treats the subject with gravity, and never indulges in titillation, but horror instead, as the subject warrants. It is a very good movie, that is a little bit thriller, a little bit detective, and very sad.