Youtopia (2018)
62KYoutopia (2018). 1h 35m | TV-MA
“No spoiler review:nIf the prospects out there are bleak and you are struggling to feed your family and keep the roof over your heads when the mortgage payments are due what does one do?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe central character is an 18 year old with a mother who is about to lose the very home they are living in with her old senile grandmother.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story focuses on how seemingly are separate families. The three generations of women In their apartment living off the grandmotheru0026#39;s pension and that of a wealthy pharmacist and his staff and family.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe mother and daughter exhibit themselves on pornographic chat room websites in order to make some money but are Still failing to make ends meet. The motheru0026#39;s failure to cope, her dependency on her daughter to assist and her willingness to let her degrade herself in order to earn some money make her a pretty reprehensible excuse for a parent.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen to match that against the life of the pharmacist a wealthy well educated man but someone who is not also so perfect as he hides his creepy secrets from his family.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne suspects that the two sets of lives would in some way meet.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn addition there is a further subplot where the young girl befriends another person presumably male in a virtual reality game two avatars meeting neither knowing what the other looks like but attracted to one another nevertheless. One creates a world in which the young girl can live a place far more promising than the reality in which she lives.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn an act of total desperation the daughter sees that the only way out for them is to sell her body and the loss of her virginity to the highest bidder in a time limited auction.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhilst the film itself is not pornographic itu0026#39;s content is a disturbing Statement about the brutality of men and objectification of women.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne can only think that this film is going to have a regrettable ending.”
