Five Daughters是根據(jù)發(fā)生于2006年10月底至12月中旬，在英國(guó)倫敦北部伊普斯維奇的系列謀殺案改編而成的。如何看待真實(shí)的事件，不同的人有不同的角度。從翻譯上可以看出，頂著“妓女”和“謀殺”兩個(gè)頭銜完全可以吸引大眾的關(guān)注，可以想見當(dāng)年媒體也是如此。而在死者家屬的支持下，這部片子從妓女的角度，為我們掀開另一個(gè)世界的真實(shí)。作為一個(gè)犯罪推理愛好者，我沒有在片子中看到期望的線索和暗示。但是作為一名女性觀眾，在片尾為Nina擦汗的同時(shí)，不禁思考是什么把這些女人推向被殺的絕境，同樣是女人，我能從這5個(gè)姐妹血的教訓(xùn)中得到什么啟示？同樣作為觀眾的你，如果也是女性，是否也換位想過如果是自己，該如何逃離現(xiàn)實(shí)的困境？
首先是5個(gè)被殺的妓女和她們的家人。Tania Nicol作為第一個(gè)被殺的，反而被描述很少，只說是19歲的乖乖女，照片里一副賢良的樣子。沒有人知道她怎么會(huì)吸毒、賣淫，最后坐上兇手的車。這部車是影片的一個(gè)重要線索，多次對(duì)拍照（EF51HXB）、顏色（深藍(lán)色）和廠牌（福特）的特寫，讓觀眾為某姑娘捏一把汗，有為另一個(gè)姑娘惋惜。半個(gè)月之后，兇手見第一次行兇成功，就放心再次下手，我們有愛的小情侶John和Gemma成為這次的目標(biāo)?？梢哉f，吸毒、賣淫和被殺的關(guān)聯(lián)像是殯儀館的殯葬一條龍打包服務(wù)，一旦踏入第一步，后面就不用管了。從Gemma的口中，我們第一次知道為什么吸毒——逃離現(xiàn)實(shí)。現(xiàn)實(shí)殘酷而又壓力大，大環(huán)境中，針對(duì)整件事的媒體壓力、群眾壓力本身就營(yíng)造了一個(gè)高壓環(huán)境，而毒品帶來的享受與輕松又深深吸引著神經(jīng)脆弱的人們。John的脆弱是有目共睹的，另一個(gè)妓女Nina的男朋友Bili也是孱弱的，另一種后文再議論。下一個(gè)受害者就是Anni。如果這么多女人中有一個(gè)擔(dān)當(dāng)主角的話，非Anni莫屬。三集的故事都是以她為開頭：第一集開始是她出獄、第二集開始是她的死亡、第三集開始則是家人為她禱告。她是Gemma的朋友，似乎比更有更加要好。她們一起計(jì)劃著一個(gè)嶄新的未來：Anni將利用自己在監(jiān)獄中學(xué)到的理發(fā)技術(shù)，Gemma也將去技校學(xué)習(xí)。一切就因?yàn)镚emma的死而終結(jié)，而Anni也再一次承受不了失去親人的痛苦，以染發(fā)為標(biāo)志，再次踏上站街之路。她的第一次失足，是她父親的死帶來的打擊。這里我們可以看到，當(dāng)主人公被愛的需求被剝奪時(shí)，脆弱的人選擇放棄自己而逃避，最后招致被殺。這個(gè)假設(shè)能否成立呢？請(qǐng)看最后兩位受害人：Paula和Annette。A是第一集就出現(xiàn)的人物，直到第三集才算正式宣布死亡。她是個(gè)作家，從頭到尾一直在寫東西。那段對(duì)得起每一次的呼吸，不占用過多的時(shí)間、空間和空氣的無公害聲明更是被多次提到。其死后家人在她的筆記本里讀到一段關(guān)于作為姐姐、作為女兒、作為愛人的暢想?？梢钥闯?，A所求不多，唯愛而已。作為體面家庭的長(zhǎng)女，作為5個(gè)弟妹的大姐，作為弱勢(shì)母親的精神依靠，A在生活中承受太多。真正推到的大象的最后一只螞蟻，就是花光她所有積蓄的那個(gè)男朋友。作為最后一個(gè)驗(yàn)證，P當(dāng)然不負(fù)眾望。和丈夫一起吸毒，不就是因?yàn)閻壅煞?，或者說喜歡被丈夫愛著，不希望走偏軌道而被丈夫拋棄。最后卻因丈夫的出軌而只能向毒品求援。就在這時(shí)，母親和妹妹拋棄了她，嫌棄她偷錢什么的。母親每每電話上答應(yīng)去探望她，卻次次令人失望。妹妹故意留錯(cuò)誤的電話號(hào)碼，希望與姐姐斷絕聯(lián)系。最后一個(gè)險(xiǎn)些被殺的Nina也是這樣，在風(fēng)聲如此緊張的時(shí)候，她的男朋友哀求哄騙她出門賣淫換毒資時(shí)，如此強(qiáng)勢(shì)、聰明的女人露出滿意的笑容。就是這樣，脆弱的女人希望被愛卻不能。最終走到這條死路的重點(diǎn)。
與這些弱智女流向比，機(jī)智勇敢的警察形象真是太高大全了。以Gull為例，頂?shù)米毫Φ耐瑫r(shí)還可以冷靜分析局勢(shì)，說話做事穩(wěn)扎穩(wěn)打，以慈悲憐憫之心保護(hù)受害者，以迅雷不及掩耳之勢(shì)抓兇手。市里開會(huì)給他施壓，在警局門口的群眾上前來辱罵，各種媒體說他的團(tuán)隊(duì)沒有工作能力，甚至家里的媳婦兒都來質(zhì)問。這樣他竟沒有求功心切，為不漏抓錯(cuò)抓也好，為安撫民心也好，為不打草驚蛇也好，對(duì)待第一個(gè)懷疑對(duì)象步步為營(yíng)，一切按部就班。而對(duì)待第二個(gè)嫌疑犯，DNA顯示他就是兇手，我們的大警官下手絕不留情面。這個(gè)例子，為我們啟開了另外一條人生之路，或者說是另外一種面對(duì)人生困境的方法。這里并不是褒男貶女。警隊(duì)另外一個(gè)角色，不記得叫什么了，就是總找妓女談話的那一個(gè)。我相信Anni就是被這樣的一個(gè)人給抓進(jìn)去的。反反復(fù)復(fù)遭妓女們白眼，逆流而上，依然關(guān)懷不止，不是好典型么？
如此，如果我被遺棄，被欺負(fù)，需要愛，孤獨(dú)的時(shí)候，要放縱自己么？要逃避么？你呢？

我們用貌似高人一等的價(jià)值觀去苛責(zé)她們、趕走她們，而她們是我們的姐妹。

看完BBC這部根據(jù)真實(shí)的英國(guó)小地方連環(huán)殺人案后，特地找了些當(dāng)時(shí)的新聞來讀。下面的一篇BBC新聞，非常棒。

"We decide that some people aren't worth our time and violent people know that"

"PROSTITUTION IN EU STATES

Netherlands: prostitutes treated as self-employed persons; street prostitution in managed zones; brothels legal but subject to licensing
Germany: similar rights for prostitutes to those of the Dutch though prostitution subject to VAT; legal brothels and recognised red light zones
France: prostitution legal - soliciting and procuring are not
Sweden: prostitution legal but buying sex is not, so clients risk prosecution
UK: prostitution not officially illegal but soliciting, procuring and brothel-keeping are

For Ms Timmermans, the coordinator of the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE), the vulnerability of prostitutes to violence is inextricably bound up in social attitudes.

Prostitution in the Netherlands involving Dutch or other EU citizens is a legal occupation, and a recent report by the foreign ministry shows that most work in brothels or sex clubs.

They can openly advertise their services in newspapers and on the internet.

Petra Timmermans believes that if our social attitude to prostitutes changed, there would be less risk of such crimes occurring.

"We decide that some people aren't worth our time and violent people know that," she says.

Prostitution is a reality, she argues, and in order to protect those women and men who engage in it, it should be given equal status to other occupations.

"We know, for instance, that there is exploitation in the textile industry but we don't scream 'Stop buying clothing' - we talk about labour rights and working conditions," Ms Timmermans says.

"We need to start talking in that way about prostitution."

Dutch prostitutes do still get hurt, she adds, but the Netherlands has made "many more women's lives safer and gone a long way in challenging many long-held biases that have let killers off the hook".

Your comments:

Here in Mexico the situation terrible. Prostitution is illegal, but it is practised everywhere for men and women. The authorities like to protect them for money not for the government, but for themselves. And if you want to have their services is probably that cops will try to take as much money as you can give for buying someone.
Enrique, Mexico City

Prostitution is a crime in Nigeria but it is widely practised and patronised by all and sundry. Many of the street walkers are every day exposed to the risk of being killed for ritual purposes etc, but many families' livelihood depends on it. I wish the Dutch approach would be adopted in Nigeria. Prostitutes or not, they are human beings, our family members, brothers, sisters, mothers, etc. Society needs them and we need them alive! Let's stop the hypocrisy. We should not expect our personal norms to be normative for society. Let's respect their choice.
Martin Manasseh Esq, Abuja, Nigeria

I have lived 22 years in the centre of Amsterdam with the red light area just fifteen minutes away from my homes and I have never felt unsafe walking in the area. It's a vibrant, lively, busy area, with a lot of police presence and a few police stations as well. When I visit England, I cannot imagine having a safe feeling walking through a red light area there.
amanda, amsterdam netherlands

I spent some time in Botswana this summer and I really believe that sex work should be organized. This is for the many safety nets and health checks that may become available. I mention Botswana because there, like everywhere else I guess, HIV is of the utmost importance. Unfortunately many women there are so desperate for cash that they will sell their bodies for 60p with a condom and 100p without. This clearly contributes to the spread of HIV in a nation with approx 33% infection rate. We need to protect these women, wives and mothers from HIV as a global community.
Courtney Baker, Orillia, Canada

If prostitution is illegal, then it should be enforced as a crime and the girls helped in rehabilitation as part of the sentence. As very few would consciously seek such a profession, there is usually a reason for going into it. If there is no will to enforce its illegality, then it should be legalised and heavily controlled. In Russia it is not illegal or legal, in fact, no one really knows what it is, it's a grey area. But the greyness allows for corruption, abuse, and even slavery. I think if it is legalised and regulated, and the punishments for things such as forced sexual slavery should be increased to just short of savage. Legalisation would offer protection to the girls (and men) which the state does not, here or anywhere.
Misha, St Petersburg, Russia

Due to the Dutch system, I have never seen in my district a murdered prostitute and very seldom a beaten-up prostitute in my 30-year career as a police surgeon and forensic pathologist.
Dr OS van Hees, MD, PhD, The Hague, The Netherlands

I am from a country where just talking about prostitution is a sin. There is prostitution in the Arab world and it has been there for ages but everyone is trying to neglect it. Prostitution and violence are in Egypt as well as drug addiction and child abuse, but everyone doesn't want to face the reality or criticise the situation. We have also street mothers - a homeless woman who has been raped and left with her child. In general human rights are not protected in Egypt, imagine if somebody tried to argue about a prostitute's right.

No one talks about this problem and it was never an issue in the parliament or even on TV. I respect and am very impressed from how the West sees the problems and facts of life and try to handle it and deal with it in an intelligent way. Yes prostitution is a fact and something we cannot prevent and they have the right to have a normal safe life since they have chosen that by themselves. I hope that hypocrites and contradicted people in my country will wake up and try to face their problems as the West is doing.
Nahla, Egypt

In South Africa, prostitution is illegal, but the laws governing solicitation of this nature are never or hardly ever enforced. If enforced, the alleged offender has to pay a minor admission of guilt fine (spotters fine) or they can appeal against the fine through due legal process. In our "designated" areas where prostitution is common, there is a 24-hour police protection and presence, to ensure the safety of these girls amongst other things and to try and combat of other crimes associated with the sex trade. In addition some Women Rights Groups have opened "safe houses" where some of these girls can take their clients for business at a really minimal fee. Condoms etc are also being distributed by the government 100% free of charge and have been made easily accessible (any and all public places, places of work and clinics) for everyone due to our high HIV/Aids rates. Also, people with a low type of income, associated with these type of prostitutes, they do have access to free healthcare etc, should they contract some type of disease associated with their trade.

But in spite of the above, crime in these areas is rife, these ladies still get beaten up, raped and murdered and our HIV/Aids infection rate continues to be amongst the highest in the world. Some even refuse to use the safe houses because. Therefore, in my view, by legalising it and setting up controlled brothels with the right healthcare infrastructure might not work. It's not working in South Africa.
Rian, Pretoria, South Africa

The issue of prostitution in Liberia is a crime, it has reduced sex workers to a point were they are constantly molested, beaten at night and disgraced at daylight. On Carey St is were you usually see this brutality against sex workers, they are seen by the general society as an outcast. And the government do nothing about this prevailing issue in Liberia. The human right organizations in Liberia do not advocate on these voiceless sex workers.
Madison Cammue, Monrovia, Liberia

With what I saw and actually touched here in Iran, I could say the situation is far more terrible in my country probably than any other country in the world! Lots & lots of prostitutes, especially in the capital, Tehran, and a total ban to all the activities around the subject and one logical result, absolute lack of human rights for these poor women... they could easily be hurt or even murdered without anybody finding out... God bless them!
Dr Shahab, Tehran, Iran

Some time ago my girlfriend was a sex worker. As her drug habit caused so much uncertainty, she took risks. She was kidnapped, tied and driven to an unknown location in fear, threatened with a straight razor and barely managed to talk her way out by pleading for more drugs at a friends, where the people inside prevailed upon the stranger to exit. No police report was given, as blaming the victim only adds stress and anguish. I looked for the sucker for years.
pedro, Fair Oaks , Republic of California

I used to live and work in Munich. Between my office and the underground station was an industrial estate through which I and my colleagues (men and women) walked. On the industrial estate were several brothels. The girls worked in a warm safe environment, not on the streets. Women walking down the streets were left alone because they were not sex workers (the sex workers were all indoors). It worked, and the UK should consider doing the same thing. Prostitution is a valid occupation and it's about time we got used to it.
david, Bedford, UK

The Netherlands are so much more progressive, intelligent and practical about the issue of prostitution than my own country that it's embarrassing. I worked for five and a half years for the New York City Department of Health in their Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease, and many of the sex-worker patients I counselled had some truly horrible tales to tell: rape, beatings. Most of the sex-worker patients I counselled (and they were all women) had drug addiction problems, and quickly ran out of ways to earn money to feed their habits, until selling their bodies became the last method they had of economic survival. Until the elected officials in my country have the backbone to admit the simple truth - that prostitution IS a fact of life, and that, rather than ignore it through criminalization, it should be legalized in select areas where workers can be monitored and medically cared for - sex workers here will be harassed, jailed, beaten and murdered.
Lawrence Sojka, Maryland, USA

Here in Spain where I live - a respectable area - there are four brothels in the area, the police check the clubs to ensure the girls who are working there do so of their own free will, and are not abused. Maybe the UK should take a look at the Spanish system? It works and works well. The local news paper has three to four pages of sex worker adverts every week. It would be easier to stop the sun shining than to stop prostitution, and mankind is trying that too, but that's another story.
Chris Miley, Malaga Spain

I live in the red light area of Ipswich and regularly overhear early morning exchanges between local prostitutes, their dealers and the odd client. Allowing these women a safe place to work legally would enable them to then openly seek aid regarding other issues that affect their lives. It would also ease tension from those of us in the local area and might have prevented this series of events from occurring.
Matt S, Ipswich



Very similar arrangements are in place in Germany and it is rare to have any trouble. The most famous red light district - the Reeperbahn - has a police station right in the middle of it, in an historic building, and the police are out on foot too and there is hardly any crime there.
Roy Brookes, Hamburg, Germany

Great article. As a retired psychologist who spent time treating prostitutes and witnessed, vicariously, what trauma they had experienced, I am for a system of licensing and treatment, including counselling, for prostitutes here in the USA. It is a profession which is not likely to go away in the foreseeable, and these workers should be subject to the same rights as any other employee. RJS
Robert Severson, Kalamazoo, USA

In the red light district here in Antwerp, there is a shopping mall-style prostitute complex with a police station in the middle of it!!
Richard, Antwerp, Belgium"

from:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6178793.stm

看這部劇不能用一般的看英劇的心情和狀態(tài)來看。這也不是一般的虛構(gòu)的小說或者什么改編而成的電視劇塑造什么英勇傳奇的探案人士，這是血淋淋的人生，這是赤裸裸的殺戮。
許多年以后或許我們會(huì)看到類似的案件搬上銀屏，我們總是會(huì)關(guān)注這個(gè)案件是如何解決的，警方是如何成功的抓到了這個(gè)罪犯，但是卻忽視了，這五個(gè)死去的女人，也許她們生前確實(shí)讓人痛恨，但是她們死后，卻變成了五個(gè)單純的女人，無論她們?cè)鯓幼愿蕢櫬浠蛘邽槭裁此破容倍玖俗约旱娜松嗦懵愕臍⒙究偸侨耸篱g最大的罪惡。
劇里沒有透露那個(gè)48歲的男人為了什么而展開這樣的殺戮，也許是出于一種痛恨，或者是出于什么宗教教義上的純潔，總之是有五條鮮活的生命在他手上完結(jié)。但是他也是個(gè)普通人，不是那種開膛手杰克那樣的嗜血狂徒，面對(duì)前來抓捕他的警察，也有一瞬間意識(shí)到“完蛋了”的脆弱和恐懼。這才是最大的悲哀。
不是為了殺戮而進(jìn)行的殺戮，是人世間最大的痛苦和罪惡。
至于家人原來對(duì)待她們的那種冷漠，我認(rèn)為是真實(shí)的。任何一個(gè)家庭，當(dāng)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的女兒染上毒癮甚至為了吸毒而去賣淫的時(shí)候，都是天塌地陷的悲痛。但是這種悲痛會(huì)隨著毫無結(jié)果的努力和當(dāng)事人的自甘墮落而麻木，最后變得漠然。正常人怎么也無法理解她們?yōu)槭裁磿?huì)那樣，不去戒毒，而是把所有能搞來的錢都拿去購(gòu)買毒品，甚至愿意為了毒品而去賣淫。我們不是當(dāng)事人，我們永遠(yuǎn)無法理解她們的這種人生。
然而死亡，尤其是謀殺，總是一種讓人無法承受的哀痛。
只要她還活著，一切皆有可能，她可能會(huì)變好，也可能還是這樣，但是最少，她還活著。盡管她活著的時(shí)候讓人唾棄并怨恨，但是她還是一個(gè)活生生的人。做父母的總是有這樣一種心態(tài)，平常的時(shí)候總是希望自己的孩子什么都是完美的，什么都是出類拔萃的，是成功人士，但是當(dāng)有些事情發(fā)生，就會(huì)希望，不管他或者她是個(gè)什么樣子，只要他或者她平安無事就好，健康就好，哪怕是面對(duì)面撕破臉皮歇斯底里的對(duì)罵，只要還活著就好。
總有些人會(huì)努力去改變一些這個(gè)社會(huì)中的不良，但是這些不良就是千年萬年無法治愈的頑疾，要不了多久又會(huì)表現(xiàn)出來。有些人我們永遠(yuǎn)無法理解，有些人生我們永遠(yuǎn)無法認(rèn)同，但是最起碼，作為同樣的人類，對(duì)于死者，可以表示一些尊重和憐憫。

越來越懶得起標(biāo)題了。

BBC果然沒有讓人失望，把一部可能是香艷的，驚悚的，狗血的電影拍的嚴(yán)肅而哀傷。

一開始是注意到電影的名字很有意思，很少有電影英文和中文完全沒有聯(lián)系。英文直譯過來是五個(gè)女兒，沒什么感情色彩，也看不出片中講什么，而中文的翻譯則多少給人以一點(diǎn)貶義和勁爆的的聯(lián)想，妓女，謀殺，非常抓人眼球。但我看完之后到更喜歡英文名多一點(diǎn)。無論五個(gè)被害人生前吸毒賣淫，或者品性心性如何，她們終歸是某個(gè)父親母親的女兒，她們的死亡同樣能造成一個(gè)家庭的悲痛欲絕。

看到片頭提示five daughters是由真實(shí)案件改編的，而且因?yàn)榈玫搅吮缓φ呒覍俸彤?dāng)?shù)鼐值闹С郑写蟛糠智楣?jié)都是真實(shí)存在的，馬上就給人以一種沉重感，確實(shí)有這么五個(gè)年輕漂亮的女孩子死去了。

片子并沒有過多渲染女孩們糜爛墮落的生活，而是更加的客觀，起碼是我認(rèn)為的客觀。鏡頭里多次出現(xiàn)她們布滿針孔的手臂，但吸毒之后她們臉上出現(xiàn)的并不是迷醉滿足的表情，而是迷茫和絕望，還有在寒風(fēng)中瑟瑟發(fā)抖的身影。gemma試圖和男友戒毒，并想要上大學(xué)，anni想要開一家摩托應(yīng)招理發(fā)店，她們都在努力的生活，努力的讓自己活的更好一點(diǎn)，而且還有自己的夢(mèng)想。paula在母親爽約后哭泣的表情，這一切都讓‘妓女’這個(gè)帶有強(qiáng)烈貶義的詞匯變得鮮活生動(dòng)起來。第一集結(jié)束的時(shí)候，我已經(jīng)沒有辦法把這五個(gè)女孩看做是墮落的象征，社會(huì)的渣滓，冷漠麻木完全不需要拯救和關(guān)心的人了。

因?yàn)榍皫啄暌部催^不少國(guó)內(nèi)的刑偵劇，加上這兩年國(guó)內(nèi)的社會(huì)案件有點(diǎn)多，難免心里總想著做個(gè)對(duì)比。一個(gè)很有趣的是警察和妓女的關(guān)系。天朝的無外乎兇手，被害人，或者某些案件的目擊者污點(diǎn)證人，兇手的比例好像大一點(diǎn)，回憶一下，她們?cè)谖业男闹辛粝碌男蜗蠡旧隙际茄G的，濃妝艷抹，穿著暴漏的短裙子，吸煙或者吸毒，完全符合人們心中失足婦女的模板。警察叔叔們都是威嚴(yán)的不為美色所動(dòng)的，還稍稍帶點(diǎn)輕蔑和憐憫。而這個(gè)片子表現(xiàn)的更多的則是，同樣在冬天的晚上，在街上散發(fā)失蹤女孩的照片，在冬天的河水里打撈不知道存不存在的第二具尸體，看上去失蹤兩個(gè)小時(shí)報(bào)警也是有人管的，溫和的和那些妓女們商量，參加一個(gè)非正式非官方的會(huì)議。雙方關(guān)系河蟹的不可思議，沒有那么多拍桌子大吼要求交待，也沒有那么多對(duì)立和矛盾。還有和媒體的關(guān)系。媒體沒有那么多居高臨下的評(píng)論，也沒那么多感情色彩強(qiáng)烈的詞匯，拯救失足婦女什么的，而是更多的要求她們等抓住兇手以后再出來‘work on the street’。