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Slavery never stopped!

Beyond the Neon (2022) Director:  Larry A. McLean By the first 10 minutes into the documentary, I was hooked. I thought it was going to be some kind of investigative journalism. A daring YouTuber who was bored with his usual pranks and social experiments decided to do something more impactful. The YouTuber Joe Salads and his team found many name cards distributed on the streets of Las Vegas, offering escort and other forms of intimate services. Equipped with hidden cameras and microphones, Salads try to get the services of an escort to document her story in the flesh industry in the Sin City of Vegas. The team managed to record the conversation for a short while before the female escort scooted off, suspecting something fishy. Footage of this interview made it online and became viral. Someone identified the escort as her lost sister.  That started the rush to get the sisters reunited. By then, one gets the idea that the whole presentation was scripted. It turned out to be more...