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''Not My Life'' is a 2011 American independent documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The film was written, produced, and directed by Robert Bilheimer, who had been asked to make the film by Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Bilheimer planned ''Not My Life'' as the second installment in a trilogy, the first being ''A Closer Walk'' and the third being the unproduced ''Take Me Home''. The title ''Not My Life'' came from a June 2009 interview with Molly Melching, founder of Tostan, who said that many people deny the reality of contemporary slavery because it is an uncomfortable truth, saying, "No, this is not my life." Filming of ''Not My Life'' took four years to complete, and documented human trafficking in 13 countries: Albania, Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Italy, Nepal, Romania, Senegal, Uganda, and the United States. The first and last scenes of the film take place in Ghana, and show children who are forced to fish in Lake Volta for 14 hours a day. The film also depicts sex trafficking victims, some of whom are only five or six years old. Fifty people are interviewed in the film, including investigative journalist Paul Radu of Bucharest, Katherine Chon of the Polaris Project, and Iana Matei of Reaching Out Romania. Don Brewster of Agape International Missions says that all of the girls they have rescued from child sex tourism in Cambodia identify Americans as the clients who were the most abusive to them. The film was dedicated to Richard Young, its cinematographer and co-director, after he died in December 2010. It had its premiere the following month at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The narration was completely rerecorded in 2011, replacing Ashley Judd's voice with that of Glenn Close. The version of the film that was aired by CNN International as part of the CNN Freedom Project was shorter than the version shown at the premiere. In 2014, a re-edited version of the film was released. ''Not My Life'' addresses many forms of slavery, including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse. The film also focuses on the people and organizations engaged in working against human trafficking. The film asserts that most victims of human trafficking are children. Actress Lucy Liu said that people who watch ''Not My Life'' "will be shocked to find (trafficking ) is happening in America." Lucy Popescu of CineVue criticized the film for focusing on the victims, arguing that the perpetrators of trafficking should have been dealt with more prominently. ''Not My Life'' was named Best World Documentary at the Harlem International Film Festival in September 2012. ==Themes== ''Not My Life'' is a documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery. It addresses many forms of slavery, including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, unfree labor in Ghana, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse. The focus of the film is on trafficking victims, especially women and children, the latter of whom are often betrayed by adults that they trust.〔 The film also focuses on the people and organizations engaged in working against human trafficking,〔 including members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Free the Slaves, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS), International Justice Mission (IJM), the Somaly Mam Foundation, Terre des hommes, Tostan, UNICEF, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the United States Department of State (US DoS).〔 ''Not My Life'' has been called "a cautionary tale".〔 It depicts the commodification of millions of people and identifies the practices of traffickers as undermining international economics, security, sustainability and health.〔 ''Not My Life'' calls attention to the fact that, in the United States, the sentencing for human trafficking is less severe than for drug trafficking.〔 The film indicates a relationship between contemporary slavery and globalization.〔 It asserts that most human trafficking victims are children, although the filmmakers have recognized the fact that millions of adults are also trafficked. The film depicts human trafficking as a matter of good and evil, provides interviews with survivors of human trafficking, and presents analysis from anti-trafficking advocates. Throughout the film, Robert Bilheimer encourages viewers to personally combat human trafficking.〔 Bilheimer was sparing in his use of statistics in the film, feeling that overloading viewers with figures might numb them to the issues.〔 According to Nancy Keefe Rhodes of ''Stone Canoe'', a U.S. literary journal, the film's audiences are likely to have the preconception that human trafficking is not slavery in the same sense that the Atlantic slave trade was, and many people believe that slavery was abolished a long time ago with such instruments as the U.S. Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment. Rhodes writes that society now uses the word "slavery" in modern contexts only as a metaphor, so that references to actual contemporary slavery can be dismissed as hyperbole,〔Rhodes, p. 13.〕 and she describes the film's goal as to "reclaim the original term () and convince us that what is happening now is what happened then: highly organized and pervasive, intentional, highly profitable and ... fully as coercive and wantonly cruel."〔 Rhodes says that the word "slavery" has started to be used in its original sense again in recent years, but that audiences' views on contemporary slavery are nonetheless influenced by the slave-like imagery in such films as ''Hustle & Flow'' (2005) and ''Black Snake Moan'' (2007).〔 The Academy Award-winning ''Hustle & Flow'' portrays a pimp as the hero, while ''Black Snake Moan'' features Christina Ricci as a young nymphomaniac; the marketing for ''Black Snake Moan'' centered on evocative, sexualized slave imagery, including a scantily-clad Ricci in chains.〔Rhodes, p. 12.〕 According to Rhodes, Bilheimer "rescue() modern slaves from representation as exotic creatures, to restore their humanity" and allow audiences to relate to them. For this purpose, Bilheimer tells stories of individuals in the context of their communities and families.〔Rhodes, p. 14.〕 While Bilheimer had previously done extensive social justice work with religious organizations, he did not proselytize in the film,〔 despite the many opportunities the film afforded him to do so.〔Rhodes, p. 16.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Not My Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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