1. On the first night of the auction, Violet was carried out in blue veil, and the virgin was dressed as the Virgin Mary. On the one hand, in the eyes of the photographer, she was a prostitute but as pure as the Virgin. The director, on the other hand, may be mourning the plight of religion in the Gilded Age of lavish goldsmiths - the Virgin can only appear in a farce in the form of a prostitute. 2. On the first night of the auction, when the men were bidding, the camera was frozen on the face of the black man playing the piano. His expression was complicated because he thought of the scene of auctioning black slaves. The last sale price of $400 was almost enough to buy a black slave. On the one hand, he sympathized with Violet, because they were just commodities to rich and powerful white men, and on the other hand, it was sadness, the whole personality of a black slave, a lifetime of labor, was worth about the same money as a little girl's first night. 3. It's still the first night of the auction... The photographer wants to spend all his savings to buy Violet's first night with a check of $300, because he loves her, but he has no power in the face of the $400 in cash that a wealthy businessman readily pulls out. At the end of the film, they got married, but in front of the rich businessman's stepfather and the mother who turned into a rich wife, they were powerless to resist, and could only shout and beg childishly. 4. The scene of waking up after being broken may be difficult for men to understand. Lipstick was smeared all over his face, and it was painful to stand up, but he pretended to be strong and joked with other prostitutes. The expression of crying and laughing in the last scene was really in place. By the way, I went to the filming location, The Columns Hotel, which is now a hotel + bar. There are still posters of this movie hanging inside, and the decoration is almost identical. It's a pity that it's not well managed, and now it's dirty and smelly.
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