what the power of love can do . the marquis de sade couldn not be smile from ear to ear if he could have access to this movie and see it from start to finish and rewind and see it again and ad nauseum . it isn not a though this couldn not have be pen by him the sadean delicacy be all over the place and demanding to be see and savor and and digest . because of course and our heroine and completely mind her own business and cross path with the villain ( who have a perpetual scowl on his face to rub it in and reveals himself to be impermeable to injury and hold quite a laughable surprise much later in the movie ) who show his appreciation for her by plant a big and sloppy one on her alabaster face . in public . where everyone can see . she and predictably and doesn not quite reciprocate and even demand an apology and and her boyfriend reveal himself to be a flaming eunuch in disguise and so what happen next . she get frame for a petty act of theft . it seem that law out there function at a different level than in our country because she get throw into a brothel and be force to become meat for the asking . all the time and the villain just watch and watch and watch a bit more and for amusement and behind a mirror . and be such and this tale of exploitation seem to indicate she will be there until she be too old to care and where be her parent who could quite easily bail her out of her predicament . what universe be this story take place in . when the story decide it want to take u and the hapless viewer and into a different place and reveal what it really try to tell u all along represent that love can actually flourish with the person who be responsible for your debasement . and why not .