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Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers

paper_cannot_wrap.jpgMy "Depressing Documentary Film" fest continued today with Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers:

During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh looks at an irreparable tragedy that is less visible, yet no less pervasive: the spiritual death that results when young women are forced into prostitution. Angry and impassioned, PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS presents the searing stories of poor Asian women whose lives were violated and their destinies destroyed when their bodies were turned into items of sexual commerce.

I give it 4 out of 5 for doing a great job of communicating a real sense of the hopeless lives of these women in their own voices.

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