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An estimated 10 million Filipinos reside or work abroad and the government processes roughly 2.3 million new or renewed contracts for Filipinos to work overseas annually. She sees Bella’s stint in Paris as a dark, violent actuality check, and "typically masculine" distinction to the "free and fluid" feminine essence that she has embodied to this point: "Culture, and society, are imposed on her." In fact, McAlpine adds, the reality of leaving sex work is "much harder than this movie suggests". Though some have criticised Bella’s enthusiasm for intercourse (or "furious jumping", as she terms it) as a "male fantasy", the controversy has largely settled on the center portion of the movie, when Bella finds herself broke and in Paris, and goes to work in a brothel. She develops quickly over the course of the movie, fuelled by an insatiable hunger for experience. But the talk over the film’s representation of intercourse can’t be ascribed merely to mere prudishness. And sex is an enormous part of that … The part asks so much from Stone: comedian timing, intense physicality, fearless sexuality, odd linguistic rhythms, and consistency in portraying a character’s journey successfully from infancy into adulthood. Or, I remember when she goes into that mode of using synonyms when she’s learning all these phrases, we might give you extra." They made some adjustments on the fly, but in order to maintain the movie coherent and the character’s improvement on observe, the script needed to be "very precise and specific," he says. |
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