It is undeniable that Lucy is always on the margins of society in the play. She has no family background and no social connections; her mother's alcoholism, her boyfriend's serious illness, the landlord's meanness, and the scorching state of the world will all weigh on the bottom of the society. And she seems to have accepted such a social position. When she repeatedly wiped the table in the dining room, when she endured a long test tube inserted into the throat in the laboratory, when she faced the cold face of the female supervisor in the office, or when she took off her clothes and was touched by someone, she did not Struggle and resist. All she showed was to endure silently, and even forced a smile. Regarding the inefficiency of life, she chose to follow the trend, accept it, and passively accept the arrangements made by her destiny. Although she was unhappy, she did not have the courage to accuse the cruel reality.
The life of Lucy in the film is very difficult. Although she works part-time after school, the meager income is not enough for her to have a stable life. In contrast, sex seems to be the only way she can feed herself. But the price of doing so is that she can't keep a bit of herself. Every time she was a "Sleeping Beauty", she was taken to the private house of the old bustard Clara (Rachael Blake). This is a closed venue and only open to a few people. There, Lucy was not only given a pseudonym, but also asked to drink the Ecstasy tea that made her sleep. And all of this, although the name protects the privacy of customers, is actually the encroachment and deprivation of the self-consciousness of an ant-people like Lucy by those so-called elites. Those powerful and powerful cannot tolerate any challenge to their social status, reputation and rights. To achieve such a goal, the method is to let people not know what they are doing. So Lucy was deprived of any right to know. Drinking Ecstasy tea, she can only let the so-called elites do whatever they want, without any resistance. Even when she woke up, she didn't know who her client was and what happened when she was asleep. Although Lucy provided services, all those people needed was her body. They don't need her to have any thoughts, memories, and thoughts. For these powerful people, Lucy's ideal state is to become a walking dead with only a beautiful body and no sense of self-defense.
In the whole film, Lucy faces not only those powerful clients, but also other people who can point fingers at her. The doctor in the laboratory seemed to be gentle, but at the moment Lucy asked to stop the experiment, he murmured. His politeness and greetings are based on Lucy's unconditional cooperation with his experiment. Lucy's landlord, even though he is not in the elite class, can rely on real estate to control Lucy to do this and that, and withdraw the lease at any time. The boss in the company, even though he is not in a prominent position, always puts on a high posture, squinting at Lucy. Obviously, Lucy has no right to speak in front of these men and women. Like Lucy's upper-class clients, these people did not allow Lucy to show any dissatisfaction or resistance. From top to bottom, these people constitute a huge social power system, and Lucy, the ant people, is obviously excluded. Thus, the film presents the audience to two opposing social classes. On the one hand, it is a hypocritical and indifferent powerful class; on the other hand, it is a helpless and insignificant weak individual. On the one hand, it is the squeeze of personal space and consciousness by the powerful society that occupies various resources; on the other hand, the marginalized people give up their existence in order to survive.
However, the anger that had been backlogged for too long finally broke out. In the film, Lucy cries bitterly twice. She cried silently for the first time. Despite the depression and pain in her heart, she still suppressed and forbeared not letting herself make a sound. The second time was the heart-piercing cry at the end of the film. Although Lucy chose to use self-paralysis to cater to the demands of the powerful for a long time in order to live, but when she realized that her living space has not been improved because of this, but has been eroded step by step, her sleepy self-awareness Started to wake up. And the moment Lucy decided not to fall asleep again, was also the moment she decided to make her own voice.
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