True Women For Sale《我不卖身，我卖子宫》

The story focuses mainly on two women:

1) Lai Chung Chung, drug-addict HK prostitute who rears chickens at her rooftop and is desperately trying to earn money to fix her blackish, stained teeth.
2) Lin Fa Wong, pregnant with twins and toddler daughter in tow Mainland Chinese mother who marries a HK ah pek who dies early in the show in a freak construction site accident.

There are moments of reality and comedy intertwined, like when Chung Chung is feigning her moans with her obese customer desperately thrusting her; she appears more conscious of her rotting teeth rather than her awkward job, and covers her mouth as she moans routinely and tries to observe the weather outside at the same time. Talk about multi-tasking. In another scene, Chung Chung is in the toilet smoking a fag while chatting with her prostitute friend in the adjacent room, who is also in the midst of faking it for her obese customer. She is later told off by the man that "could she please focus more?!", whereupon she returns her attention and groans with great gusto.

As I do not know Cantonese, I could hardly figure out what Lin is saying. However, the most poignant point in time in the feature for her would be when she meets her 同乡. Originally congratulating each other for making it out to HK and being the envy of all their town mates, Lin suddenly realises that her towns person had made it out through selling her body as a prostitute. Lin blares out at her in disgust, while the latter informs her at least she is just selling her body, while Lin is selling her womb. Hence the title of the story. At this moment the viewer reverses back to a moment in time when Lin insults Chung Chung for being a prostitute. So who's cheaper?

Many-times crowned Best Actor Anthony Wong stars as insurance agent Lau Fu Yi who does a vivid breakdown of a potential customer's networth everytime he spots one. Kudos to the director for doing the computer printout of the breakdown beside a still snapshot of the "victims".

Overall, a very good docu-drama. Now if only I understood Cantonese, I would enjoy it even more.