Samaria - Kim Ki-duk (2004)

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Jae-yeong and Yeo-jin are two schoolgirls saving money for a trip to Europe and set up a prostitution racket to raise funds. Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those man she surpresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who's jealous. One day, Yeo-Jin fails in doing her job overlooking police officers looking for underaged porstitutes. In order to not get caught Jae-Young jumps out of a window and is fatally injured. On her deathbed, she wishes to see the man again whom she fell in love with and turned away from. But the man only agrees if Yeo-Jin sleeps with him. She does but as they arrive in the hospital Jae-Young is already dead. Trying to understand her best friend, Yeo-Jin tracks down and sleeps with all of her friend’s clients, repaying the money she had earned. As her father Yeong-ki learns about this, he begins following the clients too for an altogether different reason and gets on revenge with fatal consequences.

"Samaria" (or Samaritan Girl) is a hard hitting film from Kim Ki-Duk, but then the subject of underage prostitution is never going to be light and breezy. It is split into three distinct movements titled Vasumitra, Samaria and Sonata. The first concerns Jae-yeong and her ability to enjoy (or at least tolerate) her work, which occasionally sickens Yeo-jin, the second movement follows Yeo-jin’s promise of returning the money and the third concerns the father and daughter relationship between the police officer and the girl.

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