Eden is a graphic movie about human trafficking, which is based on an inspirational story of Chong Kim, who was kidnapped and forcefully been abducted into prostitution in a human trafficking organization in the mid 1990’s. However, Chong Kim later was confirmed to be a fraud in order to gain from charitable organizations. The movie, Eden directed by Megan Griffiths instead was published before the truth reveal of Chong Kim’s story. The plot of the movie starts of with a Korean- American young girl named, Hyun Jae, whose parents are immigrants and opens a mini store in New Mexico in 1994. Hyun Jae has a close friend, Abbie brought her a fake ID, which can assist her for seeking into a local bar. Hyun Jae has an affection towards a young aged…show more content… Marx’s Alienated Labor defines as “the process by which human beings become separated from their natural state of being” (Stratification and Poverty lecture notes) or “isolate labor”, it consists of four different stages, loss of product, loss of process, loss of others, and loss of self. Eden has focused on “loss of self” and the general definition of alienated labor. As defined, “loss of self” is known to be “ failing to have a formation of the human senses themselves,” (Asher Horowitz). When Eden is first abducted to the human trafficking organization, she tries numerous times to rebel and escape from this cruelness. However, she is never successful due to the tracking ankle bracelet locked in her ankle, she constantly is being punished by the leaders for escaping. After many attempts and realizing in order to survive in this organization, she requires to obey and conform to their regulations. Slowly, Eden has follow the rules and obey to the orders, she starts to lose her true self. In the beginning, when Eden is following the others of the daily routine of body check and pregnancy test, she tends to rebel and resist in doing so. However, towards the end, her facial emotions change, she seems to be more depressed and already slowly being generated into the system. She has no choice but to follow what…show more content… As defined, social class is “the social structural hierarchical position groups hold relative to the economic, social, political, and cultural resources of society” (Stratification and Poverty lecture notes). There are three components of social class: wealth, prestige, and party. All these components relatively relates to the sense of powerfulness. Wealth links to the economic power; prestige links to social power, receiving all the respect and honor from society; and party links to the power of the politics. Power is the central of determination of strong, it defines as “The ability to get what one wants, in spite of opposition from others” (Stratification and Poverty lecture notes). The ability of receiving power is from gaining all these components of a social class. Bob Gault, who is the central leader of the human trafficking organization, are able to gain power from all these three components of social class. First off, Bob Gault gains a lot of money from the system of sex trafficking which puts him into a higher level in the economic system. He then becomes wealthy, which gives him the power in the economy. Second, Bob Gault is a well known U.S. Marshals, which is a “service of a federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Justice” (USMS). With this position, Bob Gault clearly has a firm stand in prestige as well as party, where he
