Hunted- Review

Channel 4s Dispatches, has recently aired a hard hitting documentary, Hunted about the hardships for homosexuals living in Russia.

The programme shows the events of a group named “Occupy Pedophilia”, who make it their mission to abuse and humiliate gay people whilst filming it to put on the internet. The group goes on a ‘safari’, which involves the enticement of a gay man using deception, back to a flat which is full of 13 men waiting to ridicule him. The camera crew is pushed into the bathroom, but their refusal to stop filming protects the innocent man from a worse outcome.

One man on the show talks to the camera looking downtrodden, as he describes how he was shot in the eye and left blind simply because of his sexuality. He explains “Hunting season is open, and we are the hunted” says one young gay man, who was left blinded after a homophobic attack on a party that he and other gay men were attending.

A lesbian couple is also interviewed about their fear that their children will be taken from them, under the new law that homosexuality must not be ‘promoted’ to children under 18. One even says, “[The law] would please Hitler.”

This programme brings to light the fact that some Russians, see ‘pedophile’ and ‘homosexual’ as the same definition, which creates most of theses problems.

Hunted features gay people being tortured by vigilantes for 'sport', and it is a very eye opening documentary that shows the primitive views of people and the government in Russia.