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Expendable: The Political Sacrifice of Schapelle Corby
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Expendable: The Political Sacrifice of Schapelle Corby

102 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Schapelle Corby, a young Australian woman, is arrested at Denpasar airport in 2004 after customs officers find 4.2 kilograms of marijuana packed inside her boogie board bag, and this film argues her conviction was less about drugs than about diplomacy. It lays out the case that the Australian government had access to evidence supporting her claim that the drugs were planted, and chose not to produce it in the Indonesian courtroom where she was tried and sentenced to twenty years. The film tracks the media coverage that shaped public opinion around the case, and the political relationship between Canberra and Jakarta that the filmmakers say made Corby's guilt or innocence secondary to keeping that relationship intact. Corby's family appears throughout, describing years of legal appeals and public scrutiny while she remained in an Indonesian prison. The film builds its case largely through interviews and documents rather than new investigative footage, and it directs viewers to a companion website where it says the underlying evidence is posted in full. Its argument is that a government will sacrifice one citizen's rights when a bigger political interest is at stake.