The film tells the story of Elizabeth, a 17-year-old girl living in a reorganized family. Like everyone else, she is curious and longing for sex when she is in love. Under the introduction and instigation of her brother, she has sex with Ferris in the town, but the first It didn't look as good as expected at one time. Ushering in his 17th birthday in the blessing of the whole family seems to be a hint or a ritual. After entering university, she began to study and work as a prostitute when she saw a news item. At the theatre she meets her guest George and stumbles upon her mother and neighbor Peter's composure and poise, which feels mature beyond her years. George's unexpected death during a transaction exposes her to family and society. She does not seem to have the panic and fear we imagined. She has grown up in this attempt. Unlike our traditional concept, the whole family did not hide it after knowing it, but went all out to face it to help her face the same way. Not evasive protection. She tries to go back to a normal life, and after dating her classmate Alex, she discovers that she is no longer who she was before. After meeting with George's wife after re-exchanging that "job card", whether she can overcome the psychological barrier to George's death and live a new life we don't know from the film, but what we see is that director Ou Rong arranged for George's wife It is very intentional to appear, she is with tolerance and forgiveness.
The first question after I read it was what created this Elizabeth, age and family? Perhaps there is also a courage to take risks and try. She was curious and rebellious for her age when the first sexual experience wasn't ideal. I remember a conversation she had with her mother in which she asked her mother if she had slept with Peter, and her mother's answer was perfunctory: Does that change anything? Her answer is: on behalf of you trust me. Her mother can only answer helplessly: You make me afraid like this. Such dialogue also reflects the importance of a family to children. What she gets paid in the transaction is not like a professional prostitute in exchange for a luxurious and vain life, she has been there, and it feels like she herself said it was a game, a game of experience and search.
I admire Director Ou's delicacy. The first time she stumbled and looked flustered, showing her instinctive fear and unease, but she met the kind and gentle George; the second time was a dim and low-end hotel. I hesitated when I entered the room, and it turned out that the poorer people are, the more stingy and greedy they are. For transactions, it has nothing to do with kindness and morality, but only about giving and returning; the rich and shameless businessman I met for the third time, obviously After last time, she got smarter. This is obviously a deliberate arrangement by the director to express something, perhaps to cry for sex workers, or to express anger for all kinds of people in society.
The second question is whether she has a relationship with George. In the later transaction with George, she finds that George is a father and is making up for the good father he has always owed to his daughter. Maybe most girls have an Electra, especially someone like Elizabeth who lacks paternal love, but she has always given her a maturity and independence that doesn't match her age. I personally still tend to have feelings for George in her heart. When she was leaving, George asked her if she had many guests. She used silence to express the meaning of the lyrics: I have the same heart as you and can't make any promises. It's a simple and stupid question, isn't it?
What makes me dare to be interested is that her relationship with her classmates and her brother is still so pure. When the neighbors and mother lost trust in her, she still loves life as much as she is 17 years old. I've changed because I'm not what I used to be. This is an oath to youth, an affirmation of oneself, but more of a kind of the most primitive confusion and rebelliousness of adolescence.
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