From law school girl to call girl——Interpretation of the American drama "The Girlfriend Experience" (spoiler alert)

Ona 2022-08-21 20:30:15

I discovered this American drama accidentally. I thought it was a kind of comedy drama with fake girlfriends. It was nothing more than idle time watching to pass the time. At first glance, it turned out to be an ethical drama belonging to the 18th prohibition. It has been very busy lately, but it took me two nights to watch this mini-series with mixed reviews. Of course, what attracts me is not the erotic details in the play (if you want to make a detour by yourself), but the heroine's destiny transition and mental journey from a hard-working and motivated law school girl into the full-time high-end call girl industry.
Christine is a sophomore at a law school in Chicago, studying patent law, and will graduate in one year. Beautiful, smart, hardworking and motivated, she was born in an ordinary family in a small inland city. Her parents are both middle school teachers. She has an older sister who works as a district attorney in a small city in her hometown. Perhaps influenced by her sister, she also chose law school, but she has greater ideals and ambitions than her sister. She is not satisfied with that small place in her hometown. She wants to establish a foothold in the metropolis of Chicago and take root. She participated in the intern interviews of major law firms time and time again, and finally got an intern position in a high-end law firm specializing in intellectual property business, and was assigned to a senior patent middle-aged male lawyer David as an assistant. This tall law firm recruited ten interns this time, but a year later, only two of them were able to get official positions in this law firm. The competition is fierce and she must work hard.
Christine is very satisfied with the intern job, but the pressure of life is a bloody reality: high student loans and the landlord’s renting have become problems that she must face. She has a female college classmate who can talk very well, and while the two are studying together, she also slowly approached the life of this female classmate. The situation of this female classmate is similar to hers, but the female classmate lives in a mansion in the suburbs for free-she is a part-time call girl. The female classmate once talked to her cautiously about her "part-time job." At the beginning, she was curious but not repellent about the "part-time jobs" that her classmates were engaged in. Until her former boyfriend and landlord came to urge the rent, she felt that it was urgent to get rid of the current harsh living environment. Christine is a young girl living in a highly civilized society, so it is commonplace to be as beautiful as she finds a handsome guy for a one-night stand. So for her, the difference between a call and a one-night stand is that the former can also make a lot of cash, so why not do it. So she accepted the help of her female classmates and had her first "client". Since then, the door of the "new world" has been opened to her.
The first client introduced to him by the female classmate was a decent and rich middle-aged real estate lawyer. This real estate lawyer was very generous, liked her, and was very thoughtful (the long one was good), so she had a very good one. She felt very satisfied with her "start", everything was so logical. In order to carry out the "business" smoothly, the female classmate introduced her a high-end "intermediary" Jacqueline, also known as the old bustard (the old bustard Jacqueline in the play is absolutely tall). At the first meeting, she asked Jacqueline: I can do it alone, why do I need you and give you a 30% commission. Jacqueline replied: I will help you select and evaluate customers, and you can save this time and do "business" with peace of mind. make a deal!
To do this kind of business is absolutely not allowed to use her real name, so she has her own "stage name": Chelsea Ryan. There must also be two mobile phone numbers. Part-time work and real private life must always be clear.
As a result, Christine officially stepped into the professional circle of high-end call girls, charging 1,000-2,000 US dollars per hour, and the clients are all successful men from tall, she started running back and forth between schools, law firms, and clients. Busy life, in her words: as if she was a candle lit by three heads. With the increase of clients, her financial situation improved immediately. With the help of Jacqueline, she moved into a very good apartment.
When she went to work at the law firm, she was dressed decently, with her hair curled up, her face turned upside down, and her work was serious and rigorous; when she went to school, she was an ordinary female college student; when she received clients, she had long hair and shawls, bright and considerate.
But the world is not so beautiful, as everyone knows. David, the boss of his law firm, the hero in the play is in a middle-aged marriage crisis, and they can't help but have an improper relationship. But by chance, she discovered that David had maliciously colluded with the opposing lawyer in a major patent lawsuit. She realized that David was a lawyer with no professional ethics, and his behavior would cause heavy losses to the client, and that it was illegal and would lead to jail time. She is as clever as she is, and has carefully kept the "audiovisual materials" of David and her derailment and the recording evidence of David's malicious collusion. These things are so useful, I will talk about them below. (This story tells us that children who study law have a strong sense of evidence.)
She was originally a smart, independent, courageous, principled and self-conscious girl. Therefore, she has her own ideas in the work of the law firm. For this reason, she has been criticized by David for failing to faithfully implement David's intentions. In her private life, she rarely makes close friends, rarely shows a weak side to others, but will help others when necessary. But as a call girl, she has superb "professionalism", no matter what kind of client, she can treat her with a smile, so several of the clients really fell in love with her, and began to stalker. She realized that she had to protect herself. She installed a full set of surveillance video in her apartment to prevent some clients who had taken her away from breaking into her "out-of-industry" private territory. All this fully shows that although she is engaged in such an ugly part-time job, she clearly distinguishes the part-time job from her private life. Her part-time job has nothing to do with her character, but just work. With the client, she is the beloved Chelsea Ryan. She returned home and returned to the office of the law firm. She was still the hardworking Christian.
At first, she was able to deal with it easily and easily, but when she came out, she would have to pay it back sooner or later.
First, her female classmate and old bustard Jacqueline fell out because the female classmate "detoured" to pick up guests. Jacqueline unceremoniously emptied the female classmate’s account and took away all the hard-earned "skin money" of the female classmate. Christine, who is sorrowful, went to reveal the true face of Jacqueline's vampire, so she also decided to go it alone.
Because she was struggling to deal with the work of the law firm, school work and clients, her school missed more and more classes.
Then, an old client who liked her suddenly died. This was a rich old man, a gentleman, and a rich man. He treated her very well, and she also admired the old man very much. Shocked by the bad news, she shut herself in the bathroom alone and wept bitterly (seeing here, I am very moved by the delicate feelings between the client and the call-girl). What made her even more surprising was that the old man left her an inheritance of 500,000 US dollars in the will, but it was left to "Chelsea Ryan". The old man did not know her real name. Moreover, the father's family is absolutely unwilling to let a call girl get the money. This is an inexplicable accidental loss, not to mention the family reputation. How can Christine get the legacy left to "Chelsea Ryan"?
To make matters worse, because the old bustard Jacqueline has always been worried about her "job-hopping", he hired a private detective to pretend to be a prostitute to spy on her true identity, and the family of the old man who left the inheritance also hired this detective. The detective is very professional. She knew her details clearly and threatened her to give up her inheritance rights.
Now the legal issue has come. She knows that as a young grass in the law world, to fight for the inheritance with the wealthy family members of the old man, she is undoubtedly hitting the stone with pebbles. She naturally turned to her first client for help: the real estate lawyer. For the old real estate lawyers, the inheritance case is definitely easy to handle. This old lawyer also cares about love and righteousness, and very professionally helped Christine solve the case through negotiation: if the father’s family does not give money, then go to lawsuit. Everyone, let's see where the reputation of your famous family is put; Either sign a third-party escrow agreement, and the two parties will keep this "secret" for one year, and after one year, both parties will not violate the agreement, and then give the money to "Chelsea Ryan". (Applause, tribute to the old lawyer. Don't despise my three views!)
David's malicious collusion has always made her entangled. As a law student, she knew that David, who had been intimate with him, had violated the bottom line of the law, but because of the subtle relationship between her and David, and she was just a new law. As an intern at the bottom of the institute, she was at a loss for what to do, so she could only further collect and retain evidence out of professional and conscience instinct. But David also smelled a little smell, and transferred her to work as another lawyer's assistant. Finally, out of conscience, she handed the evidence to another senior female lawyer in charge of the case at the law firm, but she never expected that this senior female lawyer was actually not clean, and she was on the same boat as her David. Yes, I went to David and sold her immediately.
One of her handsome clients became more and more obsessed with her. He secretly looked at her private phone, got a private number belonging to "Christine", and began to harass. She felt that her privacy had been violated, and for the first time she made harsh words "unprofessional". I don't know that this handsome client has already recorded their indecent videos in a despicable manner. (This client is really handsome. Members of the Appearance Association can actually consider formal dating! But his secret video recording is really disgusting, despise him!)
Finally, everything in Pandora's box was opened in a seemingly ordinary working day. Christine's work mailbox was hacked, and her indecent video that was secretly filmed by a wretched man was sent from her own mailbox to the mailboxes of all her colleagues in the law firm and her family. Everyone thought it was her own video, she must be crazy. So David was angry, and his colleagues whispered and talked about her, casting strange eyes on her. Her world collapsed suddenly! What's more hateful is that David uses this as an excuse to say that her brain is sick and abnormal, so don't believe what she says. Obviously, he is trying to find steps ahead of time for his malicious collusion may be exposed by Christine.
Who on earth did this, Jacqueline? Father's family? Wretched candid shot of a man? David? It's the private investigator...it seems to be unimportant now. Seeing this, I believe that what makes all the audience convulsed is that Christine has withstood the tremendous pressure and the gossip of colleagues in such a working day that is "the end of the world" for all girls, and is witty. He recorded David’s out-of-control rant about her indecent video, and wittyly recorded a conversation between two wretched male colleagues who spoke her gossip and offended her in the pantry. After she seemed to calmly dealt with all the things that she thought should be dealt with, she was called to the human resources department: Unsurprisingly, the notice for the fire was officially issued. After all, she is just an ordinary girl. She knows that the career of a glorious lawyer that she has always longed for is over. She has spent so much money before and read so many books hard. It is hard to sell her body to study at this moment. , All reimbursed! She finally broke down in the office!
After being sent home by a kind female colleague, she took a shower. When all the audience squeezed a sweat for her, she unexpectedly started a new life immediately: she posted an advertisement on the Internet and immediately accepted it. A customer in Toronto, Canada. She must leave the city for a few days. Of course, you can't be idle when you leave, to make money! (At this moment, I was shocked by the heroine's strong psychological quality)!
Of course she made money during the few days in Toronto, and at the same time, the show has just begun.
The real estate lawyer called him and asked her to go home quickly, because I don't know who posted the indecent video to a well-known Chicago news website, which is overwhelming. Anger replaced her shame and helplessness, and she decided to fight back.
She returned to Chicago and gave all the evidence in her hands to the real estate lawyer. She wants to kill David, who has no professional ethics as a lawyer, and to make herself a complete winner in this incident that was originally a complete victim!
She first negotiated with the news site that exposed her indecent video: she knew about the recording of the video, and she was just playing role-playing games with her ex-boyfriend. It was originally a private thing with an ex-boyfriend, and cannot be used as a "pasture and entertainment" for the public.
She also negotiated with the prosecutor with the help of a lawyer: there was no other evidence of prostitution, and emphasized that she was only playing role-playing games with her ex-boyfriend. She will not pursue anyone who hacks her mailbox and sends a video. To protect the privacy of her ex-boyfriend, she is also unwilling to say who her ex-boyfriend is. Therefore, there is no need for the prosecutor to investigate the hacking case. So instead of filing a criminal case as a prostitution, she was a victim of revenge by her ex-boyfriend.
Then, the real estate lawyer introduced her to professional labor dispute lawyers, and negotiated with the law firm where she worked: Evidence shows that the law firm’s boss, David, threatened to dismiss her and sexually assaulted a female subordinate; the male employee of the law firm was in Chashui Sexually harassed her from time to time. If the law firm does not settle, go to court. David's malicious collusion was also naturally exploded to the top of the law firm. Of course, the law firm wants to be prosperous. Even the reputable news websites and prosecutors in Chicago cannot prove that they are prostitutes. They can't get tired of dealing with the lawsuits of sex scandals in their own law, let alone the extremely fiercely competitive lawyers. The world knows that his own lawyers have maliciously colluded and violated the law, otherwise they will be confused in the future. In the end, the law firm compromised. Of course, David got out. The law firm also paid Christine a one-million dollar settlement fee. (Applause again, is my Three Views distorted!)
In the meantime, she went back to her hometown once to attend her parents' wedding anniversary party. The indecent video incident undoubtedly caused a huge blow to the second elder and sister. The parents laughed in front of their relatives and friends, showing the joy and pride that a female law school parent should have. My sister was mad and worried for her, and her mother couldn't sleep at night, completely disappointed in her. But the honest father loves her daughter after all. On the way back to the airport, she deceived and comforted her father, saying that the video was the revenge of her ex-boyfriend over the breakup. In the video, they were playing a role-playing game. She was not. What the wretched man said in the video was a "prostitution girl". Before entering the airport, his father gave him a little money and asked her to take care of herself and buy some delicious food... I burst into tears when I saw this...
Finally, Christine dropped out of law school and she bought the noble area. In a luxurious mansion, she also did some hairdressing and beauty in and out of her. From part-time to full-time, she started her new life: the role of a senior girlfriend on call. This is the end of the first season.
This miniseries attracts me in two ways: the legal issues that appear in the play, the law firm’s game rules and the specific case lawyers’ coping methods and skills; the heroine’s independent and tough personality and the destiny driven by this personality Gradually change. She is engaged in a disdainful industry, and people will definitely accuse her of her character and irresponsibility on this issue. But at the same time, we have also seen that during her work in the law firm, her seriousness and attitude towards David’s illegal behavior all show that she is a good person with a sense of justice. Other factors aside, if she officially becomes a lawyer in the future In the industry, I believe she will definitely grow into an excellent lawyer. From the perspective of her relationship with several of her clients, most of the clients are good people. For example, although the real estate lawyer has an indecent identity as a client, he still cares about her and helps her deal with many problems professionally. Therefore, man is a very strange animal. Good guys, bad guys, warm feelings, etc., may really be unclear, the way is unknown, only oneself can be worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth.
There are 13 episodes in the first season of this drama, each episode is 25 minutes, and at the end of each episode, there will be an interpretation of the plot and characters of this episode by the directors, helping the audience understand and approach the marginalized people such as call girls. real life. I really want to know how Christine's life trajectory will progress in the future, so I look forward to the start of the second season.
Zhu Xiaobao
April 15, 2016 17:36

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