True Women for Sale (性工作者2:我不賣身,我賣子宮) is a 2008 film out of Hong Kong. The movie stars Anthony Wong, Race Wong, and Prudence Liew. Cameos by Jessey Meng, Chapman To and Sami.
The movie follows the lives of quite a few people in their daily lives in Hong Kong. Prudence Liew plays Chung Lai, a street walker hooked on smack. Anthony Wong plays Lau, a over zealous insurance salesman. Race Wong plays Lin, a mainlander who's husband has died and she's prego with his twins. These three take up the majority of the 87 minute film. There are also lots of subplots running through the movie, but only add to the main stories via happenstance.
The movie itself is quite depressing, even though the ending presents "happy" endings. It explores life three years after the handover in 2000. Mainlanders are increasing their presence in Hong Kong and the natives grow ever so resentful. As with many in Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan, they have a superiority complex. You actually get that same sentiment here in Los Angeles. However, I do not think it plays out like it does in Asia (this is just my opinion).
This is a companion movie to Whispher and Moans. As the title states, it follows the lives of these people during a 10 day span. And like the first, the subject matter does deal with life between HK natives and the mainlanders.
The version I rented was in Canto, but it had English Subs for me to follow. I am sure some of it was lost in translation, much more so than its translation to Mandarin.
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