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Lost Girls | Movie Review | Netflix 🎥@josehany989d
Greetings to all fans of movies and series, today I bring you another recommendation. I'll be quite brief:
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. It is a book written by Robert Kolker in 2013 if I'm not mistaken. This book tells a crime that happened in real life. And from my point of view I would say femicides, the title speaks for itself.
Saludos a todos los fanáticos de películas y series, hoy les traigo otra recomendación. Seré bastante breve:
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. Es un libro escrito por Robert Kolker en el 2013 si no me equivoco. Este libro narra un crimen que sucedió en la vida real. Y desde mi punto de vista diría feminicidios, el título habla por si solo.
I had not found out about this story until I entered my Netflix app and was interested in the title, therefore my mystery was resolved.
Lost Girls is about a mother of three daughters, two of them still teenagers and one older. The eldest sent money to her mother to help her cover her expenses, in addition to the fact that one of her sisters suffers from schizophrenia and she must be on medication and as we well know, medicine is expensive.
No me había enterado de esta historia hasta que entré en mi app de Netflix y me interesó el título, por ende se resolvió mi incógnita.
Lost Girls trata de una madre de tres hijas, dos de ellas todavía adolescente y una mayor. La mayor le enviaba dinero a su madre para ayudarla a cubrir sus gastos, además de que una de sus hermanas sufre de esquizofrenia y debe estar medicada y como bien sabemos la medicina es costosa.
Things get a little strange when mother and daughter talk on the phone and reach an agreement that they will all have dinner together as a family that night, but that night her eldest daughter didn't show up. It should be noted that she no longer lived with them and according to the story they tell us about this background. It was somewhat dysfunctional... continuing, the next day there was no communication either and that was when her mother began to do her own private investigation, since the entities where she went for help were inefficient.
Las cosas se ponen una poco extraña cuando madre e hija conversan por celular y llegan al acuerdo de que en la noche cenarán todos juntos como familia, pero esa noche su hija mayor no apareció. Cabe destacar que ella ya no vivía con ellas y según la historia que nos cuentan de este background. Era algo disfuncional... continuando, al día siguiente tampoco hubo comunicación y fue cuando su madre empezó a hacer su propia investigación privada, ya que los entes a dónde asistía por ayuda eran poco eficientes.
As a result of all this, and the search for her daughter, the bodies of women who had been missing for years were found.
It's not a good story at all. But it is something that I see to reflect and be more careful in this world, many women are victims of feminicide every day. Many men think they are dealing with an object and not a person. Even more unpleasant is observing how rotten and corrupt the citizen security system is; entities that should ensure the well-being of the people often collude for their personal benefit.
A raíz de todo esto, y la búsqueda de su hija se lograron encontrar cuerpos de mujeres que habían estado desaparecidas por años.
No es una historia nada buena. Pero es algo que yo veo para reflexionar y tener más cuidado en este mundo, muchas mujeres diariamente son víctimas del feminicidio. Muchos hombres piensan que tratan con un objeto y no una persona. Aún más desagradable es observar lo podrido y corrupto del sistema de la seguridad ciudadana, entes que deberían velar por el bienestar de las personas, muchas veces confabulan para su beneficio personal.
›Lost girls (netflix movie review)@roadstories1134d
Bonito domingo Hivers, hoy hemos amanecido por aquí con lluvia y la verdad es que es agradable el ambiente porque los días anteriores ha sido terrible con el tema del calor. En mi ciudad estamos acostumbrados al sol, pero la verdad es que esta temporada ha sido bastante fuerte, así que a disfrutar de este lado el sonido de la lluvia y lo refrescante de la brisa.
Nice Sunday Hivers, today we have dawned here with rain and the truth is that the atmosphere is nice because the previous days has been terrible with the heat. In my city we are used to the sun, but the truth is that this season has been quite strong, so to enjoy this side the sound of the rain and the refreshing of the breeze.
Como siempre y quiero hacerlo una total costumbre porque es bueno para nuestra salud mental tener algo de tiempo para nosotros y hacer algo que nos entretenga, vengo a hablarles sobre mi experiencia y puntos de vista de esta trama que vi anoche.
As always and I want to make it a total habit because it is good for our mental health to have some time for ourselves and do something that entertains us, I come to tell you about my experience and views of this plot I saw last night.
La he escogido dentro de la sección de hechos reales, pues siento que la mayoría de las veces estan son las que más me gustan y me dejan una enseñanza de vida importante sobre lo mostrado.
I have chosen it within the section of real facts, because I feel that most of the times these are the ones I like the most and they leave me an important life lesson about what was shown.
Segun se menciona en al introducción de la misma, este es un hecho real de varios casos de desaparición de chicas muy jóvenes quienes no regresaron a casa con vida.
As mentioned in the introduction of the film, this is a true fact of several cases of disappearance of very young girls who did not return home alive.
Hasta el sol de hoy no se ha encontrado al culpable, o más bien no hubo pruebas contundentes para poder culpar a alguien y hacerle pagar por los homicidios. Así que a mi parecer es una buena forma de recordarle al asesino (si está vivo) la fechoría que hizo y a los familiares de las víctimas por supuesto hacerles ver que no se les ha olvidado.
To this day the guilty has not been found, or rather there was no conclusive evidence to blame someone and make them pay for the murders. So in my opinion it is a good way to remind the murderer (if he is alive) of the misdeed he did and of course to make the victims' families see that they have not forgotten.
No hay muchos rodeos en cuanto al inicio de esta trama, todo empieza con una llamada antes de que alguien desapareciera. Pero no hay que dejar a un lado que extrañamente, y lo digo de este modo porque me pasa últimamente con todas las tramas, hay una disfunción familiar bastante pronunciada, y creo que la misma es lo que lleva a algunas jóvenes a tomar el camino menos indicado.
En esta película se deja en evidencia lo incompetentes que puede llegar a hacer la policía y encargados de buscar personas desaparecidas, pero también algunas de las razones por la que siempre buscan manejar las cosas fuera de los medios de comunicación. Es como una forma de guardar la imagen para conseguir algo más, en este caso es no ensuciar más el nombre de un investigador que ha sido acusado de mal manejo de su equipo.
Una de las cosas que me dio bastante impotencia así como a la madre de esta joven desaparecida, es lo tan injusto que puede ser este sistema policial para descartar algo ya que para ellos no es importante, hablando en un sentido más directo, el hecho de que esta joven se dedicara a cierta actividad sexual no le quita que tenga derecho a estar segura y mucho menos le resta importancia a la hora de atender su caso.
Creo que lo más fuerte de esto es el hecho que han conectado este caso de desaparición con el hallazgo casual de varios cuerpos enterrados en las cercanías de la playa. La forma en que encuentran estos cuerpos es descabellado porque no se esperaba eso, pero la cuestión es que si no hubiera sido por casualidad esos cuerpos estuvieran allí enterrados aún y el asesino como si nada.
There's not a lot of beating around the bush in terms of the beginning of this plot, it all starts with a phone call before someone disappeared. But let's not leave aside that strangely, and I say it this way because it happens to me lately with all the plots, there is a fairly pronounced family dysfunction, and I think that the same is what leads some young people to take the wrong path.
In this film it's made clear how incompetent the police and those in charge of looking for missing persons can be, but also some of the reasons why they are always looking to handle things outside of the media. It's like a way of saving face to get something else, in this case it's not to further sully the name of an investigator who has been accused of mishandling his equipment.
One of the things that made me quite impotent as well as the mother of this missing young woman, is how unfair this police system can be to dismiss something since for them it is not important, speaking in a more direct sense, the fact that this young woman was engaged in a certain sexual activity does not take away her right to be safe, much less detract from the importance of attending to her case.
I think the strongest thing about this is the fact that they have connected this disappearance case with the chance finding of several bodies buried in the vicinity of the beach. The way they find these bodies is far-fetched because it was not expected, but the point is that if it had not been by chance those bodies would still be buried there and the murderer as if nothing had happened.
Para una familia ya disfuncional tener que pasar por este duro momento a de ser bastante agonizante, tomando en cuenta que los medios pueden ser bastantes crudos a la hora de informar los avances de la investigación.
Pero sin duda alguna dejar todo a mano de la policía nunca había sido una opción para esta madre que de verdad aplaudo su entereza, y pues la actriz que la interpreta de verdad que fue perfecta pues fue una actuación bastante natural.
Cuando se tiene una emergencia de vida o muerte lo que se espera en la prontitud de la policía en este caso en particular, mucho más tratándose que la llamada se había hecho desde una zona privada que tiene al parecer ciertos privilegios.
Esto en si es algo que me hizo cuestionar muchas cosas, dando por sentado que el culpable era uno de los residentes de allí.
Da la casualidad que el cliente de la chica perdida reside allí, además de que su doctor quien es el encargado de la seguridad del lugar también tiene su residencia en dicho sector.
Todo esto es algo que se torna en confusión y llega a un punto en que quisieras matar a ciertas personas que no parece importarle la situación y peor aún, es como si se burlaran de la chica perdida.
For an already dysfunctional family to have to go through this hard time must be quite agonizing, taking into account that the media can be quite crude when it comes to reporting the progress of the investigation.
But undoubtedly leaving everything to the police had never been an option for this mother who I really applaud her fortitude, and the actress who plays her really was perfect because it was a very natural performance.
When you have a life or death emergency what you expect is the promptness of the police in this particular case, especially since the call had been made from a private area that apparently has certain privileges.
This in itself is something that made me question many things, taking for granted that the culprit was one of the residents there.
It so happens that the client of the missing girl resides there, in addition to the fact that her doctor who is in charge of the security of the place also has his residence in that sector.
All this is something that turns into confusion and reaches a point where you want to kill certain people who do not seem to care about the situation and even worse, it is as if they were making fun of the missing girl.
Las esperanzas estaban puestas sobre la mesa para esta familia al enterarse que ninguno de los cuerpos encontrados era la chica perdida, sin embargo, la falta vocación hacia el caso hace que se vaya perdiendo el tiempo y que por supuesto la persona responsable de su desaparición tenga la oportunidad de escapar.
Hopes were on the table for this family when they found out that none of the bodies found was the missing girl, however, the lack of vocation towards the case makes them lose time and of course the person responsible for her disappearance has the opportunity to escape.
La madre de la joven recibe una llamada de un vecino del posible sospechoso y este le ayuda con ciertas hipótesis que al final dan con parte de la verdad de su trágica historia.
The girl's mother receives a call from a neighbor of the possible suspect and he helps her with certain hypotheses that in the end lead to part of the truth of her tragic story.
La incompetencia o el interés de los organismos policiales sobre la verdad de los sucesos, es algo que pasa en la realidad. Si no hubiese sido por la entereza de esta madre por encontrar a costa de todo su hija, nunca hubiese dado con ella. No creo que existiera una segunda casualidad y mucho menos cuando desligaron el caso de los cuerpos hallados con su desaparición a pesar de que habían elementos que los conectaba perfectamente.
The incompetence or the interest of the police agencies in the truth of the events is something that happens in reality. If it had not been for this mother's determination to find her daughter at all costs, she would never have found her. I do not believe that there was a second chance and much less when they separated the case of the bodies found with her disappearance even though there were elements that connected them perfectly.
El final me hizo pensar que estas cosas no fueron llevadas a cabo por una sola persona, y que más bien eran varios hombres quienes aprovechaban la situación y el lugar para hacer lo que hicieron.
The ending made me think that these things were not carried out by a single person, and that it was rather several men who took advantage of the situation and the place to do what they did.
Es realmente trágico perder a un hijo en esas circunstancias y mucho más cuando nunca te dicen qué pasó en realidad y en manos de quién.
It is truly tragic to lose a child under such circumstances and even more so when you are never told what really happened and at whose hands.
Si bien no hubo un culpable, la policía en sí tiene el mayor peso dado que tardaron una hora en un intento de ayudar a una joven desesperada gritando por su vida y quien fue excluida por ser prostituta.
While there was no one to blame, the police themselves bear the brunt of the blame given that they took an hour in an attempt to help a desperate young woman screaming for her life and who was excluded for being a prostitute.
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›Lost Girls - The story of unsolved real-life murders in a little town.@dedicatedguy2286d
A few days ago Netflix released this real-life drama/crime/mystery movie and since it seemed interesting I decided to give it a watch. The crimes happened in a small town, a girl suddenly disappears and when searching for her the police discover several bodies of other girls.
They were sex workers that offered their services online and the possible serial killer must have figured out this type of situation provides plenty of opportunities for him to commit his crimes. After watching the movie, I think one or more members of the local police might have been involved. I say this because the police didn't attend the emergency call of the last victim on time, and in one part of the movie, a group of mothers goes to a gated community to see how long it takes for the police to arrive, and they end up arriving in less than 15 minutes. But when the last victim was calling they lasted around an hour.
This movie really paints the police as an organization that employs mediocre, liars, incompetent and potential criminals. It must have been really frustrating to have all these people as the ones in charge of solving these crimes.
There were more than 10 victims in total, and since the real murdered is unlikely to ever get caught, it is really suspicious how something like this could have happened without some type of help from a policeman, or perhaps, these were all crimes committed by members of the police forces.
In the Wikipedia page about this murder nicknames as Long Island serial killer, it says that one of the suspects "was reported to have blocked an FBI probe of the LISK case during his time as police chief." Why would he do something like that?
The movie is good but it is far from a must-watch. There was nothing special about the acting, it was simply "all right" and acceptable, it is not a bad film but I am sure finding a better one shouldn't be hard. Especially because the crime/mystery genre has a lot of great choices.
If you are interested in knowing more about this story, or if you enjoy learning about real-life crimes then you will probably enjoy this flick. Although I do believe this type of information is better when shared through a well-planned documentary. Some examples of great real-life crime documentaries produced by Netflix that I have watched and enjoyed are Don't F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, Making a Murderer, and Evil Genius
The best
This good movie allows the viewers to learn about this real-life case that remains unsolved.
It will certainly encourage the viewers to search for more information about these horrible crimes.
The worst
There are much better crime/mystery movies out there.
The performances were acceptable but not really great.
›Lost Girls on Netflix (contains spoilers)@netflixr2294d
Not to be confused with the iconic 80's film Lost Boys, this 2020 released on Netflix is based on real event and that makes it more interesting that just any other police-oriented drama mystery film.
**There are spoilers in this write-up because the story itself is based on a very well-known event in real life**
I regret to say that despite fantastic acting and a story that is based on real life, the film still kind of falls flat due to what I believe to be a lack of story necessary to fill up 1.5 hours.
Other than Gabriel Byrne, who plays a relatively minor role, the cast is filled with actors and actresses I am largely unfamiliar with, and this is a strong point in my perspective. The story follows the true events surrounding Mari Gilbert and how she had to relentlessly pursue the New York police force to find her missing daughter. These events are tied to the Long Island Serial Killer, who to this day remains an unknown person.
Amy Ryan plays Mari Gilbert, a single mother with modest means who works as a waitress while simultaneously raising several daughters. One of her daughters no longer lives with her and after not turning up for a planned family dinner at mom's place, ends up completely disappearing. What unfolds is a vast conspiracy of the police not being overly concerned about her daughter's disappearance due to the fact that the daughter is a known sex worker.
Whether or not Mari was aware of her daughter's profession is not clearly spelled out in the film, but her crusade to force the police to do their jobs is actually a very true occurrence, and it is very conceivable that if not for Mari's intervention, the discovery of the bodies (which included her daughter) might not have happened.
The emotion shown on screen, particular on the part of Amy Ryan, is very nicely done and I ended up looking her up as a consequence. Turns out she has been nominated for an Academy Award in the past but I am not sure in what capacity.
Despite containing fantastic acting and an excellent cast, Lost Girls falls a little bit flat because I feel as though this is one of those films that they probably had to work a bit in order to stretch it out over 90 minutes. Whenever a film is almost exactly 90 minutes long, I tend to suspect that they were working towards this pre-defined length, rather than actually having that much material.
It kind of shows as the scenes drag on and on to the point where if you are like me, your phone gets involved as you try to kill the boredom with other things while it is on. Therefore, it is understandable why this film went directly to Netflix, which given the current state of lock-down the world is in, was probably a wonderful mistake.
I can't really recommend watching this film as the ending is probably already known to people familiar with the Long Island Serial Killer, and the long stretches of nothing happening.
