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*Spoiler* Can someone tell me the end?


I was watching this film and was not able to see the end. I saw up to the point where we finally were told that Ray Winstone wanted to find out all about a prostitute's life because his daughter was one, and I saw the scene where his daughter turned up and burst into tears. Unfortunately I didn't see any more, and I doubt that I ever will.

Can someone please tell me whether there was any resolution?

I should say (modestly averting my eyes) that I picked the daughter thing about 15 minutes into the film.

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I rented this from screenselect.com and I watched it yesterday, however, the disk crashed with 10 mins to go so I don't know the ending either!
If someone could reply, It would be much appreciated.

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I watched the movie yesterday. I got the impression that the daughter returned home after the meeting in the hotel.

Ray Winstone returns to the flat one more time and paid the £2k monopoly 'dept' (if he didn't do that before). He then left the flat - Naomi then appeared at the top of the stairs and told Ray her name was Susan. Ray returns to the top of the stairs and kisses her - he then departs.

In the DVD the 'alternate ending' is that when he leaves the building he works out the guy downstairs is the one at the end of the bell - he breaks the wire and punches him to the ground and then walks off.

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Many thanks for that. I thought it would be something like that.

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Nothing further was said about the daughter after the night at the hotel, but it's hard to imagine things would just carry on as before. However, there is still the lingering question - was she sexually abused as a child? He must have asked Naomi about that for a reason. From what I understand, many, many sex workers were victims of sexual abuse. Many drug users as well.

Another thing that happened towards the end of the film was that the pimp came to Naomi's flat (her own council flat where she lives, as opposed to the bedsit she uses for her trade), and he tells her that she can't use that bedsit any more. She asks why, since she pays rent, but he just laughs and says the money isn't in the rent, but in the selling of young women, not old disgusting women like her (I'm paraphrasing here). No doubt he intends to buy more sex slaves from Eastern Europe, who are lured with the promise of good jobs, and then their passports are taken so that they can't leave. Definitely some major issues raised in this film, without anyone getting up on their soap box.

Before Ray Winstone's character leaves Naomi for the last time, he points out that she has never called him by his name. She agonises over this, with major inner turmoil apparent in her face, and finally calls him Richard. Obviously this is one of her defence mechanisms for keeping an emotional distance from her "customers". Satisfied, he leaves, and as he descends the staircase she comes out to the top of the staircase and reveals that her real name is Suzie, or Susan to be proper about it. An even greater wall comes tumbling down. That game of Monopoly was probably the first time she'd been treated like a human being for longer than she'd care to remember.

I watched this film, which was just on free-to-air TV in Australia a few nights back, mainly because of Ray Winstone, who is a terrific actor and also has very good judgment in choosing projects. That he agreed to do this one for little or no pay speaks volumes. But the real revelation was Jan Graveson, who gave a truly subtle and sublime performance. Looking at her list of credits, it's clear that she's been truly wasted in one ordinary TV series after another, I only hope that she's been doing plenty of theatre, so that a talent like hers hasn't completely gone to waste.

I gave this film 9 out of 10.

RD

P.S. I'm so glad they didn't use the alternative ending, which would have just cheapened the whole film.

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