从伦敦到布莱顿

One middle-aged woman, one teenager girl.

The whole scene is surrounded by gloominess and darkness.

The woman Kelly is a prostitute and the girl is wandering on the street for some reasons.

Then are all unhappy and they encounter with each other.

Kelly wants to bring the girl to Brighton to satisfy a guy with pedophilia.

Kelly is poor and struggles for money.

On the train, they chat, staring at the scenery outside.

Not so many words, but they smile at each other.

In Brighton, the girl throws the stone barefooted, not afraid of the coldness.

She is still a child, she will be happy for an ice cream, will lie for her age.

Even when being asked whether a virgin or not, she shows calmness and coldness, but her expression tells innocence.

When being kissed by the old man, she was scaring to death and fought back.

Kelly couldn’t bear it, she helped the girl to escape, the man was hurt by the knife.

Kelly loves money and sells her body for money, but she cannot bear a kid being hurt by an old man.

Then the old man’s son appears, he intends to kill Kelly and the girl.

But to my surprise, he kills his subordinates because somebody needs to pay for the death.

Why? He watches his father dying but takes no action; does that mean he has already unsatisfied with his father?

The film has little words, but the word “fucking” always appears, maybe it is the correct attitude towards life.








        

dvd的另一个结尾是：

凯莉在街上接续拉客，上车以后，一会儿，简妮送她的玩具熊被从车窗里抛出来，汽车远去，小熊在黑暗阴湿的街角……

赞叹影片的节奏，紧凑自然，毫不拖沓。不过感觉支撑起整个构架的依然是主角精湛的演技，Joanne假装成熟,习惯性的在每个大人面前把自己的年纪夸大好几岁，在Derek问她是否已经不是处女是狡黠的转过头漫不经心的说是，而却又似乎毫无防备，即使黑帮老爸不怀好意的要拉她上楼前依旧天真的要些无足轻重的答案。不过孩子终究是孩子，坐上去布莱顿的火车就忘了前天晚上的惨烈，眼前只有大片大片的British racing green.依旧是五彩斑斓的世界，潮水涨落的海滩。至于Kelly，妓女只是她获取钞票得以生存的一个符号，就跟卖菜的小贩，摆摊的鞋匠一样自然而然，母爱的可望而不可得，失落的童年，对家庭的眷恋，她比谁都人格健全，而和Joanne的偶遇仅仅是某个出口使之释放而已。所以我倒觉得Joanne唤醒了Kelly的母爱之类的话就扯的太远。倒觉得她们的关系更象是朋友，而无论是Kelly 还是黑帮老爸的儿子即黑帮儿子应该都在Joanne身上找到了某个阶段自己的影子。至于故事就多处难以理解，匪徒破门而入男男女女鱼贯而出，怎么没一个人想到报警反而人家稳如泰山的回忆了几个小时。再如个人认为造成黑帮老爸幸而身亡的人物应该是他忠诚的儿子吧~那一幕闪回中儿子对着血淋淋的老爸冷眼旁观，一动不动，老爸翕张的双眼应该是若有所思吧~~既然老爸的死对于儿子是件解决童年伤疤无比快意的事，就算他想拉个甲乙丙丁做个替死鬼也是情理之中的，没道理费尽心机的找到恩人填埋吧~智力正常的人都能想象十二岁的孩子流落到这般田地定有不为人知的辛酸苦楚，也用不着流水线般拉到车上追问同情同感既而翻然悔悟啊。而吞咽一盒香烟确实刻骨铭心但不至于就因此耿耿于怀见死不救啊，自以为铺垫不够。而说惊耸貌似言过其实，无名的原因让我觉得导演无意中泄露了结局。临走前还问问瑟瑟发抖的“凶手”有没有钱这一段也太煽了，理想中的情况应该是干净利落的处理掉尸体后不等人反应过来便酷酷的走调噢。

总之懦弱自私的人死得其所，就是可怜了中途良心发现的Derek的那条狗腿子竟然比主谋都还先被毙掉。

其实很难换位想象身处弱势，无家可归小女孩，和自行放荡卖淫女的心境。就是这样一个组合，在一个几乎看不到友善的下层社会，演绎了一场良知和童真的相碰狭义故事。
虽然小女孩最终回归了家庭，回归了温馨，友善社会。但这段曾经，她的心灵创伤，应该在以后爱与被爱的路上，很难很难平复。

每次看到这样的片子，都有种无力感。每个人善良人似乎都有隐藏人性恶一面。当人性的恶爆发时，无力招架的是平凡无辜的他人。

如果让你来编一个故事，说的是一个儿子有多么痛恨自己的父亲，你会怎么怎么编？如果这个说故事的人，一只在讲一个女孩和一个女人如何逃避黑帮的报复，让你为他们的命运紧张兮兮的，直到直到最最后，他才说了句什么，然后故事结束了。不同的人听故事会有不同的看法。我这个听故事的人，就因为这最后的一句话，觉得说故事的人，太精了。给了他一颗四星，还想再加半颗。