Opisy(1)
The fall of the former Communist regime led to an easing of the legal regulations in Czechoslovakia connected to the world's oldest profession. Therefore a grey zone of considerable size appeared in the market economy. The documentary What's a Girl to Do? attempts to provide the viewer with a psycho-social profile of women who earn their living or generate extra income by providing sexual services in the Czech Republic. Apart from a deputy police officer and a non-profit organisation worker, it is the prostitutes themselves who speak out. Some of them dispense with anonymity and openly tell their stories and experience directly to the camera. Others are interviewed by the filmmakers directly while practising their profession, therefore the filmmakers also become customers, visiting infamous streets, parking lots and public houses. They record the prostitutes' statements via hidden camera. Using this – from the point of view of documentary ethics – questionable strategy, they manage to get immediate reactions to questions concerning their motivations, attitudes towards their customers and visions of the future. (Academia Film Olomouc)
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