Graceland is an amazing movie that is incredibly uncomfortable to watch. In the initial opening scenes, there is already child prostitution, drugging, alcohol and political corruption. It isn’t stylized-neither glorified, nor made monstrous, but feels like it was shot in a cinema verite style. Graceland takes well-known movie plots and makes them shocking again. The daughter of a chauffeur for a corrupt politician gets kidnapped, and the politician does not know what happened to his daughter. What unfolds is simultaneously expected and unexpected. Who needs a dystopian world when reality is so depressing? If all art can be classified by pre-fall, post-fall, heaven and/or hell, then Graceland is permanently in the post-fall category. Everyone is culpable-the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Graceland was shot in the Philippines so there are subtitles. Not a must see, but if you are looking for light entertainment, go elsewhere. Graceland is a very strong movie that humanizes the thriller model.