Import Export
Ulrich Seidl, a film maker and Australian writer wrote the story of the Import Export movie. He claimed that through this movie, he looked “directly in to hell” in a clearer and sharper way. According to him, the current workforce contributes to human pain and the costs due to globalization. Values of human compassion, he feels have taken a secondary seat. The fore seat is taken up by something which cannot be described but which is far darker - cruelty and glee in painful spectacles.
The story Import Export is depressing and takes a look at two lives that are parallel in Ukraine and Austria. Olga (Ekateryna Rak) is a nurse by profession. She is also a single mother who is struggling to make ends meet. The pay is poor and the housing conditions terrible. When she reaches saturation limits, she decides to leave her child with her mother and move to Vienna to look for a job as a cleaner or a nanny.
Paul, (Paul Hoffman) who belongs to the working class in Austria is our second story main lead. He possesses few qualifications that are not adequate for him to secure a good, well paying job and has en number of tattoos on his body. Fired by his security firm for getting beaten up by drunken delinquents, Paul has only choice if he wants to survive. He has to accompany his womanising, repulsive, unpleasant, step-father, Michael (Michael Thomas) to Ukraine and sell gumball machines, fruit machines etc, which are second hand, to bars and cafes.
Olga gets herself a job in Austria, as a cleaner cum nanny in a house where the residents of the house treat her with contempt and fire her peremptorily with a day’s notice. Because she does not have a nursing licence she gets herself a job as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital where she is forbidden to touch the patients. Here she meets the ward-sister who is a spiteful woman who constantly keeps bullying her but she also finds comfort with Erich, a patient who is kind toward her.
The differences between the housing conditions in affluent Austria and desolate Ukraine housing estates are blaring because the film is shot in winter. The movie depicts the sex industry in a manner that is very close to reality. The rich are shown using and exploiting prostitutes for their own entertainment and pleasure. Their treatment toward the sex workers is abusing and humiliating which is what happens in reality and which is what is captured quite vividly. Even Michael is shown doing this to a prostitute that he brings to his hotel room. Your browser may not support display of this image.
Subjects like frustration, indifference toward other’s sufferings, humiliation, poverty and how it forces people to stoop to various levels to better themselves, are dealt with a very realistic touch to it. Watch Import/Export online free, through streaming video sites, downloading movie sites or paid movies sites at home today.