I don't know what to say...

I have a list of 31 movies I have to watch until end of january (see one of the previous posts). Well, instead of locking myself into my room and "work" through the list, I spend more or less the whole day again in different AIESEC offices in Switzerland and in the train. Finally back home and working again on some AIESEC stuff, I got my daily midnight snack and started zapping on TV with the intention of just watching one or two video-clips and then go to bed...so far so good.

But then, I landed on ORF2. I saw beautiful cinematography, amazing pictures of an estonian city in the post-sovjet union time and a great score. "hm...looks interesting, what could that be?". Well, it ended up to be one of the most intense movie-experiences I ever had! The movie is called "Lilja 4-ever" by the swedish director Lukas Moodysson. The story was about a 16 year old girl who was abandoned by her parents who were off to the states looking for a better life. After falsly accused of being a prostitute by her "so called" best friend, her classmates from school turn against her and she eventually ended up as the prostitute. Her only friend is a 11 year old boy who regularly gets beaten by his father. One day, she meets a handsome, charming stranger in the club where she used to be waiting for potential clients. He promised to get her out of this misery by taking her to Sweden. Blinded by the outlook of a better future and by love, she agrees on going with him but instead of happiness, she finds hell as a slave of an eastern-european sex mafia...

Again, this was one of the most powerful and touching movies I've ever seen. It's on the same level as "Requiem for a Dream" or "City of God". It's one of those movies that doesn't get out of your head, no matter how hard you try and the fact that the whole issue the movie is dealing with is very present and common even in Switzerland makes the whole thing even worse.

I'm so moved right now, I guess I won't be able to sleep at all...