Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Absolutely amazing

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

All I really want to say is this. You two ignorant, uninformed, and truly sad individuals, need some education. I guess, I have to feel sorry for what you both must have gone through in your childhoods. If you think what happened to that beautiful young girl while she was so innocently playing with other children was a spanking! She was clearly Beaten! With a garden hose. This is a very sad story of a slave!No More!

I actually agree with Demetrius. This is less about slavery, and more about kidnap and then release to a bullying family who she simply walked away from. Of course it will come under a broad definition of slavery, but if it wasn't for the kidnap at the beginning, it would simply be living with some harsh bullies. not a nice thing to happen of course, but not quite slavery. However it does capture the emotions very well, the father plays an excellent part. As a father I fully understand his wish to regain his daughter, but not how he could abandon his wife for years while he searches, that part makes no sense. Comments by xjvttucr have been reported as baseless racism, which is what they are.

I want to say that there is a point in human affairs at which the principle concern in producing a work of art is that it is needed. For those reviewers too sophisticated to recognize the colossal issue and disgraceful fact of still-existing slavery, surely they can find aesthetic objections within this film. Reviewers, such the previous, from the North, may also comment that the film represents a political manipulation designed to vilify a faction and glorify another. In the event that the documentation of injustice casts a negative light on another group unjustly treated, then perhaps it is best to document no injustice at all. I am certain that it is the case that over 90% if the American public are unaware of the endurance, and record breaking prevalence, of the international slave trade, an industry that remains perfectly compatible with capitalism worldwide, since the enormity of it as a problem is routinely swept under the rug while the personal nuances of overpaid actors and athletes become our daily bread.

I can't believe some reviews...I would love to see that demetrius guy separated from his family, when all his friends will brutally killed, when he can't sure that his family are alive or dead, when he is just 12 years old, and send to some foreign country, lock in the house and do nothing but hard work and with constant insult and abuse, never talk anyone. And then after 6 or 7 seven years of that, come here and review this film again.This film is not perfect, not show all horrible things happen that poor slaves but good enough to feel guilty for what happened to them. (Sorry my English is not good)