The plot - as absurd and deadly serious like a dream tell - concerns Lucy, played by Emily Browning, a young and beautiful student. To make money, she holds down various part-time job in a bar, an office and a medical laboratory, where it is voluntary, and has a thin plastic tube placed in his throat. This opening scene is the most disturbing sequence of the film, a shocking exhibition of penetration, which will test all the gagging of the audience, and providing the rest of his freelance portfolio well. Lucy has been the scene of high-end escort, located in upscale bars, do some coke with the people she meets who have sex for money with scary guys before returning to his scuzzy student house.
Great time while Lucy: to make real money from a quasi-necrophiliac cult for the rich, led by Clara (Rachael Blake), an elegant madame. All she has to do is to be drugged and naked on a bed in a mansion, while a former client with rich romps her beautiful body, but he wants - but it is forbidden to enter. In the morning, she will remember something. Finally, Lucy becomes obsessed with finding what is being done for her, and more in the grip of uncertainty in a tender, private friendship, which in its winding road is the closest she comes to life normal. All this is sex in a way that fear and guilt cauterizing secret?
In a way, Sleeping Beauty is a film very unmodern, a return to the castle and artporn eroticism of 1970's, played by delirium, and once it forbidden fantasies Walerian Borowczyk: Immoral Tales and The Beast. The idea of rich gentlemen tuxedo pay a high price for sexy gown, sex, or situations with young women with style and good taste may seem rather strange, and Stanley Kubrick made fun of him for these ideas in his eyes the last film Wide Shut. The idea of rich men thought to submit to the rule of non-penetrating, often after a complex dialogue and cultivated, is also a bit tense. In the real world, big spending clients in the sex industry hope to exercise all the powers of the rapist of women victims of trafficking or exploitation. However, Leigh takes his half surreal fantasy, most of the time, simply by keeping totally indifferent.
It tests the patience with daring his audience, rather, before a sex scene with a long dialogue on the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. This scene has caused a lot of moaning, and yet is part of the elegant, asymmetrical Leigh.
The lack of penetration, a kind of rhyme horrible idea with the plastic tube stage, the focus of almost paternal interest in Clara, "The vagina is a temple," she says, to the amazement of Lucy. (The two times I watched this movie, I could not suppress a smile very badly to the memory of a routine of Kenneth Williams: "My body is a temple," "Honey, more like a meeting at the house of friends ! ")
But the fact is that nobody need to ban the distribution, not with a penis anyway. These old guys do not have a hope to get up. Some very explicit moments comes when former clients take off their clothes and going to bed with sleep Lucy. Contrary to perfection, their bodies shrunken and wrinkled, and in one case, the penis is almost nonexistent, disappearing into a gray pubic fuzz. Leigh film makes a clumsy and hard power in just show the body in a context that strips naked dignity. But if there is a feminist ... Well, it's here.
Sleeping Beauty is more than the sum of its parts, and the last part of the ends is not entirely satisfactory. But it is well acted and well made, and Rachael Blake and Emily Browning, their different ways, to carry out their parody of the mother-daughter relationship safely. It's not really erotic, perhaps the most thanatotic black comedy about men transformed the idea of immediate death, or would like to behave how they behave when they have money and status, but not for young people.
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