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Why did the old man trip Lucy/Sarah?

posted 9 years ago by complications123
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During Lucy's first "job," when she's in the white outfit, she's pouring brandy with the ladies. When she gets to the last old guy, she turns around and he grabs her leg and makes her fall. Another older man - presumably the host, who spoke about one of the dishes - politely helps her up as if she's simply stumbled. The other women look on, not seeming to acknowledge that the man tripped her at all, yet everyone had to have seen it.

What was the point? Why did he trip her? And why did everyone else act like she'd simply fallen?

[–] anne-536 9 years ago

That same man when he 'slept with' her, verbally abused her and ranted against women in general (my opinion). It seemed clear that he was the wife/woman beater type.
So, he just did that because he could, and that he could get away with it in that rich, male crowd.
None of the woman would be allowed to say anything about it, or they'd lose their job.

[–] HenryCW 9 years ago

Yes, and I think the main purpose of that scene was to show that not all the old men were "bad". Some of them abused Lucy verbally and physically, like dropping her on the floor while she was asleep and burning her ear with a cigarette. Even when Lucy was awake, the guy mentioned deliberately tripped her so that she fell over. By contrast, the white-haired guy who helped her up was of the "kind" and considerate type. He was that same sexy senior citizen that told Clara the manager a long story about his wife, and that died in Lucy's bed at the end of the film.