A Movie by Dzmitry Vasilyeu
More than anything else, my movie Dimanasus Prophecy, is a story about the ultimate triumph of true love. It's a detective-action-comedy movie. But it's also a raw, in-your-face portrayal of human nature's ugliest sides; our potential to allow ourselves to be controlled by avarice that's lower than that of a vicious wild animal, and by great cruelty insensitive to the pain and suffering of others. In its final movie form, Dimanasus Prophecy will show the world the abysmal horror of the human sex slave industry in Eastern Europe, controlled by the Russian mafia and organized crime elements in Europe and North America. It devastates the lives of the young people who are its victims - the young women and men of my native Belarus and neighbors Ukraine and Russia.
The Dimanasus Prophecy story is rooted in 1960s America, in a small fishing village along North Carolina's coast. The people there were hard-working fishermen and hunters, but they were very poor, and depended upon nature’s bounty to feed their families. Their community was isolated, located deep inside of a large forest, connected to the rest of the world by a small, windy dirt road. Since they lacked the typical activities and culture that people in larger American towns and cities enjoyed, these people would have open air parties. They would dance and sing together over big bonfires, living it up over a fresh keg of homemade beer. The children would play together; do their homework together, and tell ghost tales before bedtime. They were close-knit. They supported each other and enjoyed the simple things of life in a poor rural village.
The community’s water mill had been in disrepair for quite a while, but the man who owned it had become so poor that he could no longer maintain it. He had been trying to sell it, but no one would pay him what he was asking for it. Money was simply a rare commodity among these people.
There was one particular family who had two little girls. They were named Angela and Fiona. Angela and Fiona’s family was the poorest family. Another family, the community’s wealthiest, had a little boy named Tommy. Tommy’s family owned a huge herd of cattle. Their wealth sprung from Tommy’s great grandfather, who in his time had been the only blacksmith for hundreds of miles. Over time the family acquired lots of property, and they became wealthy. At the age of 12, little Tommy had dreamed of becoming a skilled blacksmith just like his great grandfather. But in today’s world of 2005, few people need a blacksmith.
Tommy’s family lived on the other side of the village, just at the edge of a wooded area. His father was the only man who owned a car. He had built a large home for his family. He adored his wife…. One day he woke up early in the morning and discovered that she had left him and their baby boy, taking all the money they had saved in the house…. She never returned to him and Tommy. Tommy’s father’s mind has never been right since then. The one he adored left him, and the family life that sustained him was ripped away from him. His mind froze in time. All he can think about now is how he would like to play with his little boy in the evenings. You can find him just about any time of day, sitting along the highway, hidden in tall grass, watching cars go by, for hours and hours at a time. Is he hoping that his wife might be in one of the cars, and she’ll come back to him? Who knows?.... After his wife left him, he sold his cattle and quit trading to make money. His savings was low, but he still owned his large home at the edge of the woods….
Time seemed to pass quickly. The children grew like weeds. They played together a lot as teenagers. They were musically talented. One played violin. Another played a handmade flute. Angela and Fiona each had a crush on Tommy. But he was only 16, and shy, so he never revealed his feelings to either of the sisters. Besides, he thought they only considered him their good friend - not as a boyfriend. Tommy never forgot the day his mother abandoned him and his father.… By this time, all of the kids dreamed about leaving their village and moving to the big city of Philadelphia. That‘s the only large city they knew anything about. They knew such a move would require a lot of money, and they began devising ways to get it.
The girls came up with their own way….
Each evening they would walk up to a spot along the highway and stand and motion for truck drivers to stop their trucks. They were very pretty girls who looked older than their real age. Angela was only 13, and Fiona was 16. They’d walk up to the big truck and proposition the drivers for sex. They made their money performing oral sex for $20 a turn. Angela and Fiona were very ambitious, and determined to get to Philadelphia, to get a college education. They could have a better life, have lots of fun, and finally find themselves each a rich guy to get married.… One day, not too long after the girls started their money-raising scheme with truck drivers, Tommy’s father had fallen asleep while sitting in the tall grass close to the highway. (He had been doing this, day in and day out for years, as his mental disease slowly progressed and got more severe). He woke up and it was dark. While rushing to get back to the house, he noticed that Angela and Fiona were talking to big rig truck drivers….
The Dimanasus Prophecy story begins from that time and place… While watching this movie, ponder these two questions:
“Is it better to live as a fish in an aquarium, swimming back and forth in a two-dimensional, artificially lit world, never worrying about food, being comfortable but having no real freedom; having a place to live and swim, but never being able to move beyond permanent glass walls? Or is it better to be like a bird who flies freely in the limitless sky anywhere he desires, but must continually hunt for food to survive?”
~Dzmitry Vasilyeu
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