While Vanity Fair is rife with dirty deals in money, sex and power, it's well known and even commonplace. But when I watched Netlifx's documentary, I was still shocked by such a bloody society. I can't help asking myself: Is there really justice in this world?
I just finished watching this documentary in one breath, I was full of shock, indignation, deep sympathy for all the victims and disappointment in this dark world.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein? He is a real-life enhanced version of gatsby, a business tycoon with a lot of money and a brother to Trump. He is narcissistic, perverted, and pedophile. In the early days, he obtained the first pot of Wall Street gold by his academic qualifications and financial fraud, and then he manipulated another business tycoon by emotional manipulation, seized a large amount of his assets, and succeeded in ascending the throne. After that, he formed his sexual assault Ponzi. scam. On the grounds of providing "job opportunities", middle school girls who came to "work" were sexually assaulted, paid $200 each time, and asked them to refer their next classmates, thus establishing a huge sexual assault kingdom.
These girls are all from low-income families. Most of them are at the bottom of society and cannot see a way out of life, and some are ordinary but at least happy girls who go astray and never get out. And Jeffrey Epstein took advantage of these women's weaknesses and manipulated them: he made them feel lucky to be selected, and brainwashed them that it was helping them achieve academic or career success.
In the documentary, not only Jeffrey, a business tycoon, but also a British dignitary (Prince Andrew) and the elite lawyers who helped him defend are involved in the entire sex trafficking darknet. And the Florida federal prosecutor who initially shielded Jeffrey, and was later elected as the U.S. Department of Labor Secretary are you kidding me? These Hollywood movie plots happened nakedly in American society.
When female victims look at the camera and look back at the injuries they suffered during their teenage years, when they spend the rest of their lives in fear and trauma, while the criminals are still at large, evading the trial that should have happened more than a decade ago. The powerful and powerful are at the top of the food chain in this society, trampling on the self-esteem and life of the girls at the bottom of the society. While this is happening, where is the God that Americans believe in?
The documentary is short for four episodes, and there is a strong feeling that all the victims are at the moment of being hurt, except for fear or fear, and for the underage girls kidnapped by fear, except for compromise or compromise. The retrospective of the girls in the middle when they grew up made me cry:
A girl said, I used to be an ordinary high school student. I got good grades and got A in all subjects. But after being sexually assaulted, my life was completely rewritten, and I seemed to have lost a part of myself and could never get it back. She said to the camera that it was like a flower that was forcibly picked and crushed.
Some of them later self-mutilate, degenerate, flee, blame themselves, and remorse. But fortunately, the girls who finally stood up in this documentary bravely spoke up for themselves and told the truth in the face of the camera, even though the truth was a thousand and one for them.
Fortunately, although this world is full of holes, the light of humanity still shines through the gaps:
In the first episode, the female editor in New York challenged Vanity Fair magazine, hoping to publish the evil deeds of this tycoon. Although she did not succeed in the end, she was the first representative of justice in this documentary;
Next is the local director who received the report more than ten years ago, which is awe-inspiring. He said: He has been working in the local jingcha bureau for more than ten years, and he has also fulfilled the responsibility of protecting residents for more than ten years. He has never seen such a ridiculous case. Since he received the report, he has defended justice for the girls again and again, and reported the case to the FBI level by level. In the documentary, he is slightly older, and his purpose is only one - to achieve justice and protect the legitimate rights and interests of victims.
Next came the lawyers who defended the girls. Even if their family members were threatened with personal safety, they still insisted on not giving up on continuing to track the case, and joined Zhou Xuan, a national elite team of lawyers on the other side.
The private investigator who is assisting the investigation, he said he also has two daughters, a 21-year-old and a 15-year-old. Thinking of the impunity of these demons, threatening every underage girl, he knew that he could not give up collecting evidence.
The worker who maintained Jeffrey Epstein's private island was working for the money until one day, another worker asked him, if it were you, would you let your daughter come to this island to work for the rich man? He suddenly woke up: absolutely impossible, he will do everything in his power to protect his daughter from the island's perverted master 8 kilometers away from the slightest damage. He resigned the next day.
The most gratifying thing is that the girl who successfully fled to Thailand met a man who didn't mind her past, and proposed to her on one knee - go to Australia with me. After that, they resolutely decided not to just hide in a peaceful life, but to stand up for the victims and bring the devil to justice.
And the New York judge of the final trial, who refused Jeffrey Epstein's $500 million bail appearance fee to prevent the convict from fleeing. Although he did not appear on the scene, from the descriptions of the girls, it can be felt that he is an old man with justice and morality. "He has a high position, but he shows absolute respect for us. He listens to us carefully and carefully. This is what we are looking for. We hope to be heard by this society."
In this more than ten years of struggle, without the positive values and unremitting efforts of these people, Jeffrey Epstein may still be reaching out to more girls in the high society of the rich and the money.
Although in the end the villain actually died in prison in a bizarre way. This is another form of fooling of his victims and the society, and he deserves so much more than that. I don't want to comment too much on the ending. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is definitely another conspiracy.
A personal takeaway from this documentary:
In this world, including around us, there are actually many successful people in the secular sense. But I never felt cold to them, always felt that something was missing from them. After watching this film today, I suddenly realized that most of them may not have any values that they are defending. As a person, it's a bit hollow. And if rich and powerful people do not have normal values, it is more than empty, it is simply a disaster for mankind.
So is there justice in this world?
I think, there may not have been, but because of the unremitting efforts of a small number of people, justice has a little bit of growth soil. It's fragile and powerful, if you have the chance, defend it to the best of your ability.
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