Synopsis of Sleeping Beauty (Movie and Story)
Sleeping Beauty is a 2011
Australian drama film that was written and directed by Julia Leigh.
It is her debut as a director. The film stars Emily Browning
as a young university student who begins doing erotic
freelance
work in which she is required to sleep in bed alongside paying customers. The
film is based in part on the novel The House
of the Sleeping Beauties by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata.
The film premiered in May at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Lucy (Emily Browning)
is a university student who holds a number of odd jobs: she volunteers as a
test subject at the university medical research lab, works at a coffee shop,
and makes photocopies at an office. Her landlord dislikes her,
and she spends her time visiting Birdmann (Ewen Leslie),
who is attracted to her. Although she does not return his affection, she
appears to be happier when with him.
Lucy responds to an ad
and is invited to meet Clara (Rachael Blake),
who offers her a job: freelance silver service
in lingerie.
Lucy agrees, and Clara tells her that she will never be penetrated during these
encounters. Clara says she will call Lucy by the name Sarah. Lucy gets beauty
treatments before arriving for the event. She is the only girl dressed in white
lingerie; the other women seem to be much older, wear severe makeup, and have
black lingerie designed to reveal much more than to conceal. The event is a
formal dinner party at an elegant home. Lucy serves drinks for the party and
goes home with the money she made from it.
After one other session
as a serving girl, Lucy gets a call from Clara's assistant Thomas (Eden Falk) for
a different request. Lucy is driven to a country mansion, where Clara and
Thomas inspect her body. Clara then offers Lucy a new role with the clients,
wherein she will drink some tea and then fall into a deep sleep.
Lucy is seen lying in a
large bed, sedated, as Clara leads in the man who hosted the first dinner
party. After Clara reminds the man of the no-penetration rule, he strips,
caresses Lucy's body, and cuddles up next to her.
Lucy is evicted
from her apartment by her landlords. She instead rents a much more expensive
apartment. After two more sleeping sessions at Clara's house, Birdmann calls
her. He has overdosed on painkillers,
and she visits him as he dies. She takes off her shirt and gets in bed with
him, sobbing but making no effort to help him. At Birdmann's funeral service,
Lucy asks a former acquaintance if he will marry her. Dumbfounded, he refuses, citing
his new relationship, and several character flaws in Lucy.
Lucy is fired from her
office job and buys a small, concealable camera. She takes drugs with a
co-worker, goes night-swimming with him, and wakes up naked in her apartment
with him. The next morning, she is hung over
and late for her assignment with Clara. Once Lucy arrives, she asks Clara if
she can see what happens during the sessions while she is asleep. Clara
refuses, saying it will put her clients at risk of blackmail. Right after being
placed on the bed for the session, however, Lucy awakes and removes the small
camera which she had concealed in her mouth. She is able to set the camera and
return to bed before being discovered. The client is once again the first man,
but this time, he also drinks the tea with a much larger dose
of the drug.
The morning after,
Clara comes in and checks the man's pulse, showing no surprise when he cannot
be awakened. She then tries to wake Lucy but is at first unable to do so,
eventually having to use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Lucy awakes and, discovering that the naked man lying beside her is dead,
screams. Throughout the whole film, Lucy was quiet, passive, and stoic, now
when she sees the situation, she finally releases emotions—the sleeping beauty,
now awake. The film ends with the scene captured by the camera that Lucy had
installed: the dead old man and the sleeping girl both lying on the bed.
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