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Essay / Analysis of the film Half The Sky - 992
Along the way, the question was asked how Somaly assimilates girls. She repeats the word children four times to emphasize the importance of her mission so that the victims become children again. When they arrive, they are greeted by Cambodian girls in white shirts, blue skirts, school uniforms, with smiles on their faces and flip-flops on their feet. Images of cheerful girls running around show that Somaly Mam has achieved her goal of bringing the girls back to life. There is a change halfway through the scene where Somaly returns to talking about his experiences. Trying to distance herself from the man who cheated on her as a child, she repeatedly calls him him. She bluntly says she knew nothing about sex until she was forced into it. This is an anomaly because sexually active people are traditionally thought to have heard of or been told about sex at least once. She then goes on to say six times that when she told the brothel owners and patrons, "I don't want it," they would beat and rape her more. Returning to different scenes of the children, the binary of tears and smiles was