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Facing the burst of the commercial movies which you can only discard into the nearest mental Recycle Bin after you watched it, every different story is refreshing. That is the case with the Whore as well, by the controversial Spanish, Maria Lidon.
The plot is about the writer who is desperately trying to find out the delicate information about the world of prostitution. We can only guess her physical presence because her face never shows and instead of it, we follow the story of a failed anthropology student (Daryl Hannah) and her neighbour, the failed actress, as well, who lives pretty well in spite of many refusals on auditions. Soon, we discover she is a prostitute and she works with more serious clienteles from the high society, which brings her really decent income. When the money for studying and living runs out, her neighbour will try to find salvation in the world of prostitution.
 Beside the main plot, this charming and shocking acting collage dressed in clothes of documentary technique follows divers display of prostitutes, gigolos and ladies for private escort trying to explain an eternal dilemma – the essence of prostitution. Imagined as a special love game with the audience, the movie opens with the scenes of gorgeous girls pulled in the sex industry and as we find out more and more details about the world of prostitution and we gradually become the participants ourselves in the movie – through individual experience of the scenes, which do not leave anyone indifferent. As the story goes on, we become more drawn into the narrative content which will explode in front of us at the end, as a special movie orgasm, in its real light. The biggest value of this movie is in this, stretched plot actually, which shows the real splendour and misery of modern courtesans at the end.
Although the actor’s duo is extremely uninteresting and predictable, the other scenes give a rather plastic picture of the happenings behind the red satin curtains to the spectator, inexperienced with the charms of the oldest profession. The participants speak several languages (although Spanish is dominant) which additionally enriches the whole show so the explanation of the voluptuous black woman about her phallic fetish will be interrupted by a Check pimp who talks about how the work is to be done or the worn-out lady from Chile who still manages to find customers. An intelligent use of the soft-core erotic scenes, which are always interrupted before the hint of the kingdom of pornography, the movie gives the seriousness and weight of the qualitatively constructed scandalousness and unusual education.
Yo, puta is not a movie everybody will like. That has not been its purpose at the first place. But it is the movie that will surely make you think. No matter whether you are a man or a woman. And that is art.
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