Children trafficking and abuse are horrors of human depravity. They rightly belong to the darkest recesses of evildoing. Movies usually deftly avoid this topic, unless it goes to the tired premise of a revenge movie that serves no other purpose than to give us an empty satisfaction that justice somehow prevails. And yet, does it really? "I am all girls", gritty and unflinching South African movie avoids the familiar albeit trite path. The protagonist, detective tethering on the brink of exhaustion, is too real and wounded to become an action movie ass-kicker. Her successes are few and far in between and the shocking fact that only 1% of victims are found and saved in the end, makes her obsession overshadowed with destructive doom. Will she be the next victim that this monster devours?
Review of I Am All Girls
