if the purpose of this documentary be to evoke an emotional response and foster dialogue and it succeed on both count . i leave a comment to articulate my visceral response to this film and and a few people find it offensive . but what should i say . a a human be and much less a documentarian who have to be to thailand and i be offend by this film . i do not think bangkok girl ever really get to tell her story . all i heard be the filmmaker . so i be go to repost my comment and and preface it with a disclaimer represent for any who come surf here with the intent of post their tearful heartfelt applause and you might find the following comment to be unpleasantly sardonic . i be a good citizen . that why i be go to a bowling alley in virginia and u . i will interview the first girl willing to talk to me . maybe she be beat by her husband but remain in her marriage . i will ask her lot of personal question represent why do she get an abortion when she be 15. why doesn not she leave her job a an underpaid waitress and quit drinking and go back to school . then i will lay in a voice over and wonder if there really any hope for her and or any remedy for the tragedy of her situation . i will call it represent richmond girl . because everyone have a story . a for the men in the bowling alley and they do not really have a story so i would not ask them personal question but together and we can feel good than them . i will wave goodbye to the first girl in richmond who talk to me and and feel good knowing that i could have sleep with her if that what i want . because that what caring be . if youre amaze or ashamed that hypocrisy like this still have an audience and try to understand that it basically a rite of passage for lazy film student everywhere . college student love to investigate prostitution and but they do not do it at home because they would have to see and hear from their subject again and that too much commitment . so student represent ask around the quad and you will hear about some place you can shoot ( coincidentally and your own country gnp will be high go team . ) . i hear paraguay be like and really bad . like you can buy any girl you want and stuff . you will come back from vacation feeling well about yourself and a if you have tackle some kind of social problem . and good still and you will get an a. i challenge you to learn one single thing about thailand from this indulgent film . this come from a long embarrassing tradition of backward and self serving and patronize colonialist explorer film . kidlat tahimik please . let me hold you and cry .