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Bangkok Girl (2005)

Bangkok Girl
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Length 43minutes
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Documentary
Rating64% 3.242133.242133.242133.242133.24213

Bangkok Girl is a documentary film that was both produced and directed by Jordan Clark. It is a low-budget film, having cost $10,000 to produce, and takes sex tourism in Bangkok as its subject. Bangkok Girl is 43 minutes long and focuses on Pla, a bargirl who is 19 years old and who guides Clark through the city. The film explores Pla's background and how she came to be where she is. Pla began working as a bargirl at the age of 13, and, while she had managed to avoid being prostituted up until the point that the documentary was filmed, the film suggests that she will eventually be forcibly prostituted. In November 2005, the film aired on "The Lens", a program on Canada's CBC Television. Sweden's Sveriges Television also aired the film. In 2011, Tara Teng, a Canadian contemporary abolitionist who was Miss Canada at the time, said that her first impetus to combat human trafficking came from watching Bangkok Girl. In one scene of the film, Pla looks into the lens of the camera and says "No one cares about me." Teng said that this line changed her life. She further said that, at the time, she could not understand how a person could believe their personal worth was determined by the amount of money a person would pay for them.
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