Hope Lost

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Story:

Movie revolves around Sofia who is a Romanian girl with passion for acting. A chance meeting with Gabriel (Andrey Chernyshov) at a club spurs her ambitions as Gabriel claims to be a producer who needed fresh faces for his upcoming reality shows. He says that Sofia has the kind of face and smile that can win every contest on television. His pampering works and she instantly leaves her family to accompany Gabriel to Italy. Both travel to Rome in the car and spend a night at a hotel. In the morning, a pimp appears in the room and informs that Gabriel had sold her for a huge amount. Now she is threatened into working as a prostitute on the streets.

Her miserable life faces another shock by the arrival of Ettore (Daniel Baldwin) who is looking for a girl that may be consumed in filming a snuff movie. The buyer of the girl is known for his sadistic attitude and barbaric treatment of the girls. What kind of future fate has in store for this charming girl?

Review:

Sex trafficking has been one of favorite issues for the movies and often pops up in documentaries and films. “Hope Lost” introduces to us some characters that are predefined, predictable and stereotyped. As this is basically a character-based story, we can legitimately expect to watch a story that provides us with some insight into the internal mechanism of the main characters. But unfortunately, this drama lacks such depth and relies mostly on a hackneyed script, devoid of all originality or novelty.

Story moves hastily, defying all logic and giving us the impression about writer’s impatience to jump to the point where Sofia’s tribulations start. She meets Gabriel in a club and without any investigation into this stranger’s reality, she leaves her family and goes with him to another country. Such loopholes mar the charm of a dramatic

IMDb

• A young Romanian girl, bored with small-town life, dreams of entering the glamorous world she sees on Italian soap operas. One night at a club, she meets Gabriel, who claims to be a TV producer who wants to cast her in a reality TV show he is making in Italy. But when she arrives, she is sold to the pimp Manol and forced to make her living on the street. Things get darker with the arrival of Ettore, a sadist who makes snuff movies.
• Sofia is a young Romanian girl who dreams to become a show girl. Sofia meets Gabriel, an Eastern European producer who has been living in Rome who asks her to follow him that very same night: he is about to film a new reality show and he thinks there might be a part for her in it. Sofia reaches the conclusion that she cannot lose the opportunity of a lifetime and she gets into Gabriel's car. As the dawn light filters through the sky, Gabriel has gone. Manor has taken his place; he organizes a bevy of extremely young girls from Eastern Europe. She is forced to work as a prostitute and she experiences violence and the steamy squalor of the punters' cars.

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