![]() She says she cannot remember anything that happened and tells them she'd been planning on seeing the musical Wicked with a girlfriend. She is informed that she was found, naked, in a suitcase. Madison is initially confused, not knowing where she is or what happened. When she wakes Sergeant Olivia Benson and Detective Nick Amaro are waiting in her hospital room. Madison's body is then shown being loaded into an ambulance and, after a quick cut, through the halls of a hospital as doctors and nurses frantically work on her. He places his fingers on Madison's neck to check for a pulse and radios for help. The figures walks the suitcase through the halls of the hotel, through a crowded bar and out onto a cobblestone street where they leave it beside a pile of trashbags, partially unzipped.Ī short time later a police officer is shown running over to the bag. A generic black suitcase is hurled on the floor and a figure in black, wearing leather gloves, carefully arranges her body to fit inside and zips it closed. The episode jumps ahead to her naked body dangling from the edge of a bed, draped in a white sheet. The African-American driver watches in the rearview mirror and winks at her. She takes a swig from a small bottle of vodka and applies lipgloss and mascara. As the taxi pulls away, she removes her jacket to reveal a skimpy black dress. Madison Baker leaves her uncle's upscale apartment and is helped into a cab by the building doorman. When gossip site mogul Lenny Simmons airs the stolen footage, he refuses to give up the source material and ADA Barba takes him to court to find the truth. Benson suspects Russo and his manager, Lydia Lebasi, are covering up the crime when security footage from the party goes missing. Later that night, a patrolman finds her in an alley, sexually assaulted and barely alive. ![]() It can perhaps be never understood in its totality the jigsaw puzzle of our humanity needing an eternity of compassion to be made whole.Fifteen year-old Madison Baker sneaks out of her uncle's home to meet breakout movie star Scott Russo, who invited her to a party via social media. But what did happen in that camp is subjective to her memory and the facts may have been even more dreadful than we see. A film like no other it should never disappear or be inaccessible. As I said the film is complete and many will disagree but it is my firm opinion. Unbearable to watch we bear it as she must do for the rest of her life. There is even a love story to be recalled her prisoner's lover who she encourages to see the woman she is protecting, and there too her pain at not being loved herself is paramount to her. Aleksandra Slaska in this role is above criticism, so well does she attain authenticity. She sees it all and as if looking through her stills of self confession to her appalled husband we too see the narrative move like a film usually moves. The people seen going to their deaths the patting of the guard dog's head by a child as she makes her way to annihilation and the man who casually throws an arm back into a truck full of the dead. ![]() This is conveyed as narrative and she spares herself nothing. ![]() Her horror at herself is shown quite clearly in two of the stills that accompany this part of the film, and the further past is both tortured and alive in her head. Seeing it again in 2021 the early 1960's is well past, and like old photographs the mystery of what really happened when a former bodyguard sees the woman she has both perhaps helped, and yet sadistically so, is well conveyed. For me thanks to those who were dedicated enough to make a completion they have one hundred per cent achieved it. I have no idea what the final result would have been if Munk had lived and ' completed ' this masterpiece. ![]()
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