Comments above summarize some of the great moments.
I wish to say that the director here also shows the main victims (prostitutes) as well as other women/girls exploited by the powerful, as truly vulnerable and abused.
And he does so without glamorizing the victims (thus this film is not voyeuristic, but truly tragic). The scenes of violence against the women are somewhat muted, so no one can go "voyeuristic" over the fate of these women---whose main reason for being murdered is ---that they were in the wrong places---at the wrong time.
For instance, the prostitutes are women mainly in their forties, ravaged by their so destructive life style, and they show it. One slightly younger prostitute, maybe late 30's, trues to lure Watson with the line "But I have all my teeth!" And then she finds---a loose tooth. The look on her face! *****
So unlike Hollywood which "uses" most prostitutes in their films as an opportunity for voyeurism...as most prostitute characters look like they entered the field of prostitution---yesterday, ...and are not yet ravaged by the disease, violence and emotional damage that is the lot of most prostitutes then and now.
This is a film where the strong do stand for the weak.
Our civilization would be worthless...if the strong didn't stand up for the weak.
I wish to say that the director here also shows the main victims (prostitutes) as well as other women/girls exploited by the powerful, as truly vulnerable and abused.
And he does so without glamorizing the victims (thus this film is not voyeuristic, but truly tragic). The scenes of violence against the women are somewhat muted, so no one can go "voyeuristic" over the fate of these women---whose main reason for being murdered is ---that they were in the wrong places---at the wrong time.
For instance, the prostitutes are women mainly in their forties, ravaged by their so destructive life style, and they show it. One slightly younger prostitute, maybe late 30's, trues to lure Watson with the line "But I have all my teeth!" And then she finds---a loose tooth. The look on her face! *****
So unlike Hollywood which "uses" most prostitutes in their films as an opportunity for voyeurism...as most prostitute characters look like they entered the field of prostitution---yesterday, ...and are not yet ravaged by the disease, violence and emotional damage that is the lot of most prostitutes then and now.
This is a film where the strong do stand for the weak.
Our civilization would be worthless...if the strong didn't stand up for the weak.