User Reviews

This documentary features, just as the cover suggests, six girls from disparate countries around the world, telling us (the viewers) about their most contrasting lives. So we have, for example, the middle class first world girl versus the teenager from Gabon about to be married to a middle aged man. Each tell their stories, with absolute conviction, in snippets of several minutes before cutting to the next girl - where we get to learn more about her story. Thus each story builds.

This documentary *might have* come across as unstructured, possibly boring and uninvolving, but no - instead it simply works - engaging the viewer, solely because every single one of the girls, that they feature, have clearly been carefully chosen for the fact that each one has an interesting life story to tell. The stories are unrelated save for the fact that each is told by a young woman, in today's early twenty first century world; with each from a completely different culture, compared to the others'. For this reason, the movie works to define, in the biopic sense, what it cumulatively means to be a young woman in this world today.

As someone who has issues concentrating on anything even remotely boring, this documentary still managed to hold my attention throughout, and for that reason I strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoys being educated as to how other people live. Or at least, that is how I took this film to be. However, if you are the sort who likes loud bangs and 'action sequences', then not only is there no hope for you, but you also won't enjoy watching this much, if at all.

Of course it is wrong - but that is the way it is in many places around the world. Girls need to be protected - from themselves, from others, from what life throws at them. The job belongs, and always has, and always will, to their fathers and brothers and mothers and family members. It is not the job of some bureaucracy to demand billions in funding to impose moral values upon other people in the name of what is right. The reason these girls are being exploited is very complex, but it is not a solution to have a bureaucracy act in the role of their father, brother, sister, mother. The solution is to address the complex society issues that result in the girls not being protected by those that should be doing that job - it is not to do that job.