Import Export Free

By Susan Moore

Import Export movie is written by a Australian, Ulrich Seidl, who is also a film maker. He claims that with this movie, he looks "directly in to hell" in a clearer and sharper way. He thinks that the current workforce incurs more human pain and the costs due to globalization. Values of human compassion take a secondary seat compared to something that is far darker - cruelty and glee in painful spectacles. Your browser may not support display of this image.

Import Export is a depressing movie which takes a look at two lives that are parallel in Ukraine and Austria. The first story main lead is Olga (Ekateryna Rak), a nurse by profession who is also a single mother struggling to make ends meet. The pay that she gets is not adequate and the housing conditions are terrible. She reaches her saturation limit one fine day, and decides to leave her child with her mother and move to Vienna to look for a job as a cleaner or a nanny. Your browser may not support display of this image.

Paul, (Paul Hoffman) our second story main lead, belong to the working class in Austria. His body tattoos out number his qualifications. He used to work with a security firm which firms him for getting beaten up by drunken delinquents. He has but one choice now, to go with his womanising, repulsive, unpleasant, step-father, Michael (Michael Thomas) to Ukraine to sell gumball machines, fruit machines etc which are second hand to bars and cafes.

Olga gets herself a job in Austria, as a cleaner cum nanny in a house where the residents of the house treat her with contempt and fire her peremptorily with a day's notice. Because she does not have a nursing licence she gets herself a job as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital where she is forbidden to touch the patients. Here she meets the ward-sister who is a spiteful woman who constantly keeps bullying her but she also finds comfort with Erich, a patient who is kind toward her.

Your browser may not support display of this image. Since the film is shot in winter, the difference between the housing conditions in affluent Austria and desolate Ukraine housing estates are quite clearly brought forth. The sex industry is depicted like reality, where the rich use prostitutes and exploit them for their own entertainment and pleasure and treat the sex workers like robots without feelings, abusing and humiliating them constantly. Even Michael is shown doing this to a prostitute that he brings to his hotel room.

Other subjects like frustration, indifference toward other's sufferings, humiliation, poverty and how it forces people to stoop to various levels, are also effectively and efficiently dealt with. Making you sit up and take notice of where we are heading as a race. Watch Import/Export online free, through streaming video sites, downloading movie sites or paid movies sites if your looking for some serious kind of movies. - 30302

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