Lilja 4-ever

I cried in a lot of films recently. For example, King Kong. Lilja 4-Ever, however, did not move me to tears.

Social commentary aplenty. The lead character Lilja is abandoned by her mother, who moved to the US with her boyfriend and disowned Lilja. All the characters in the show condemmed their home country, Russia and envisaged a better life in the States. The aftermath of the Cold War lingers. The diminished superpower.

MacDonalds appeared everywhere in the show.

It's not a sad movie but something that will make you feel repugnant about this world. Why our world is so fucked up. Why money buys sex and why people sell sex. There are lots of sick people out there. Disgust fills ur head.

I read this article from Straits Times of this teenager who was asked to do all sorts of nonsense in front of his webcam by stranger adults who paid for his actions. Among them were respectable professionals like lawyers, doctors and businessmen. Paying young kids to masturbate in front of their webcams.

We are really living in a shitty world are we?

At times, life doesn't seem good at all.