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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The first man we see Lucy sleep with returns for another session, but Clara puts a larger dose of sedative in the drink she gives him. The following morning, Clara checks on the two to find that they have overdosed; the man has died, but Lucy is revived by Clara with mouth-to-mouth. After a moment's pause, she begins screaming in despair and hitting the bed frame. The film then abruptly transitions to the footage captured by Lucy's hidden camera, showing her and the man sleeping in bed together. Fade to black. Roll credits.]]

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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The first man we see Lucy sleep with returns for another session, but Clara puts a larger dose of sedative in the drink she gives him. The following morning, Clara checks on the two to find that they have overdosed; the man has died, but Lucy is revived by Clara with mouth-to-mouth. After a moment's pause, she begins screaming in despair and hitting the bed frame. The film then abruptly suddenly transitions to the footage captured by Lucy's hidden camera, showing her and the man sleeping in bed together. Fade together, after which it fades to black. Roll credits.black and ends.]]



* NothingIsScarier: There is no explanation given for [[spoiler:why the service Lucy works for exists, why it specializes in what it does, and what personal fulfillment the male clients -- and the female workers, for that matter -- get from it]]. In that sense, the audience is just as in the dark as Lucy.
** The film notably cuts away from [[spoiler:the older men as they interact with Lucy when she's unconscious. Although the only rule they're given is to not penetrate the women they sleep alongside, some of the men take it as a suggestion and not a command, as we see one man making aggressive sexual advances on Lucy while vowing to rape her. The extents of what happens between Lucy and the men who interact with her are never shown, and it's never made clear whether they just wanted to sleep next to her or had darker intents...]]

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* NothingIsScarier: There is no explanation given for [[spoiler:why the service Lucy works for exists, why it specializes in what it does, and what personal fulfillment the male clients -- and the female workers, for that matter -- get from it]]. In that sense, the audience is just as in the dark as Lucy.
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Lucy. Also, the film notably cuts away from [[spoiler:the older men as they interact with Lucy when she's unconscious. Although the only rule they're given is to not penetrate the women they sleep alongside, some of the men take it as a suggestion and not a command, as we see one man making aggressive sexual advances on Lucy while vowing to rape her. The extents of what happens between Lucy and the men who interact with her are never shown, and it's never made clear whether they just wanted to sleep next to her or had darker intents...]]
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* ShesGotLegs: Lucy invokes this in all of her outfits.
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Lucy (Browning) is a young university student. Her time is split between three jobs to pay tuition and rent -- daytime work in an office, evening work in a restaurant, and occasional work as a research subject -- on top of being the caretaker of an alcoholic. However, she still struggles to make ends meet, driving her to answer an ad in the school newspaper promising more short-term work which leads her down a rabbit hole of surreal interactions.

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Lucy (Browning) is a young university student. Her time is split between three jobs to pay tuition and rent -- daytime work in an office, evening work in a restaurant, and occasional work as a research subject -- on top of being the caretaker of an alcoholic. However, she still struggles to make ends meet, driving her to answer an ad in the school newspaper promising more short-term work which work. This leads her down a rabbit hole of surreal interactions.
that ends with her being initiated into a high-paying freelance job under a mysterious group in which she is voluntarily sedated and sleeps nude alongside rich male clients, completely submissive to their desires.



* FanDisservice: Emily Browning's body spends the majority of the film depicted in various states of undress, including full nudity, but with the alien nature of the environments she's in, the overall effect is far more disturbing than titillating.

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* FanDisservice: Emily Browning's body Browning spends the majority of the film depicted in various states of undress, including full nudity, but with the alien nature of the environments she's in, the overall effect is far more disturbing than titillating.



* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:The film ends with Lucy screaming after being awoken by Clara next to what she discovers is the dead body of a male client -- it's the most emotion we see from her the entire film. Whether she's screaming from the horror of waking up next to a corpse or the implications that he may have taken advantage of her, or expressing her pain from the events of the whole film, is left undefined.]]

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* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:The film ends with Lucy screaming after being awoken by Clara next to what she discovers is the dead body of a male client -- it's the most emotion we see from her the entire film. Whether she's screaming from the horror of waking up next to a corpse or the implications that he may have taken advantage of her, or expressing her pain from the events of the whole film, is left undefined.unclear.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You're going to sleep and wake up. It'd be as if these hours never existed."'']]

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It'd be as if these hours never existed."'']]
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* IllGirl: Gender-inverted. Lucy's only close friend, Birdmann, is suffering from an illness that is never made clear.
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''Sleeping Beauty'' is an Australian erotic drama film written and directed by author Julia Leigh in her directorial debut, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the first Australian film in competition in ten years since ''Film/MoulinRouge'', and was released in Australia in June of that year before getting a limited American release in December.

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''Sleeping Beauty'' is an Australian erotic drama film written and directed by author Julia Leigh in her directorial debut, and starring Creator/EmilyBrowning. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the first Australian film in competition in ten years since ''Film/MoulinRouge'', and was released in Australia in June of that year before getting a limited American release in December.
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Leigh reportedly based the film on a multitude of inspirations including Yasunari Kawabata's ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'', Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'', the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and her own experiences with dreams. The Kawabata novel was previously adapted into a German film, ''House of the Sleeping Beauties''.

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Leigh reportedly based the film on a multitude of inspirations including Yasunari Kawabata's ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'', Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'', the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and her own experiences with dreams. The Kawabata novel was previously adapted into a German film, ''House of the Sleeping Beauties''.
''Film/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties''.
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Leigh reportedly based the film on a multitude of inspirations including Yasunari Kawabata's ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'', Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'', the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and her own experiences with dreams. The Kawabata novel was previously adapted into a German film, ''Film/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties''.

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Leigh reportedly based the film on a multitude of inspirations including Yasunari Kawabata's ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'', Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'', the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and her own experiences with dreams. The Kawabata novel was previously adapted into a German film, ''Film/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties''.
''House of the Sleeping Beauties''.
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Leigh reportedly based the film on a multitude of inspirations including Yasunari Kawabata's ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'', Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'', the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and her own experiences with dreams.

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Leigh reportedly based the film on a multitude of inspirations including Yasunari Kawabata's ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'', Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'', the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and her own experiences with dreams.
dreams. The Kawabata novel was previously adapted into a German film, ''Film/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties''.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Considering how much of Lucy's identity in the film is defined by eroticism, it hardly seems a coincidence that her work as a research subject consists of having a long tube shoved down her throat.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Considering how much of Lucy's identity in the film is defined by eroticism, it hardly seems a coincidence that her work as a research subject consists of having a long tube with a bulbous end shoved down her throat.



* NothingIsScarier: There is no explanation given for [[spoiler:why the service Lucy works for exists, why it specializes in what it does, and what personal fulfillment the male clients -- and the female workers, for that matter -- get from it]]. In that sense, the audience is just as confused as Lucy.
** The film notably cuts away from [[spoiler:the older men as they interact with an unconscious Lucy. Although the only rule they're given is not to penetrate the women they sleep alongside, some of the men take it as a suggestion and not a command, as we see one man making aggressive sexual advances on Lucy while vowing to rape her. The extents of what happens between Lucy and the men who interact with her are never shown, and it's never made clear whether they just wanted to sleep next to her or had darker intents...]]

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* NothingIsScarier: There is no explanation given for [[spoiler:why the service Lucy works for exists, why it specializes in what it does, and what personal fulfillment the male clients -- and the female workers, for that matter -- get from it]]. In that sense, the audience is just as confused in the dark as Lucy.
** The film notably cuts away from [[spoiler:the older men as they interact with an unconscious Lucy. Lucy when she's unconscious. Although the only rule they're given is to not to penetrate the women they sleep alongside, some of the men take it as a suggestion and not a command, as we see one man making aggressive sexual advances on Lucy while vowing to rape her. The extents of what happens between Lucy and the men who interact with her are never shown, and it's never made clear whether they just wanted to sleep next to her or had darker intents...]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Considering how much of Lucy's identity in the film is defined by eroticism, it hardly seems a coincidence that her work as a research subject consists of having a long tube shoved down her throat.
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* FanDisservice: Emily Browning's body spends the majority of the film depicted in various states of undress, including full nudity, but with the alien nature of the environments she's in, the overall effect is far more disturbing than titillating.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The first man we see Lucy sleep with returns for another session, but Clara puts a larger dose of sedative in the drink she gives him. The following morning, Clara checks on the two to find that they have overdosed; the man has died, but Lucy is revived by Clara with mouth-to-mouth. After a moment's pause, she begins screaming in despair and hitting the bed frame. The film then abruptly transitions to the footage captured by Lucy's hidden camera, showing her and the man sleeping in bed together. Fade to black. Roll credits.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:The film ends with Lucy screaming after being awoken by Clara next to what she discovers is the dead body of a male client -- it's the most emotion we see from her the entire film. Whether she's screaming from the horror of waking up next to a corpse or the implications that he may have taken advantage of her, or expressing her pain from the events of the whole film, is left undefined.]]


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* MaleFrontalNudity: Several of the older men Lucy sleeps alongside are depicted full-frontal as they strip naked.
* NothingIsScarier: There is no explanation given for [[spoiler:why the service Lucy works for exists, why it specializes in what it does, and what personal fulfillment the male clients -- and the female workers, for that matter -- get from it]]. In that sense, the audience is just as confused as Lucy.
** The film notably cuts away from [[spoiler:the older men as they interact with an unconscious Lucy. Although the only rule they're given is not to penetrate the women they sleep alongside, some of the men take it as a suggestion and not a command, as we see one man making aggressive sexual advances on Lucy while vowing to rape her. The extents of what happens between Lucy and the men who interact with her are never shown, and it's never made clear whether they just wanted to sleep next to her or had darker intents...]]


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* SpyCam: [[spoiler:Lucy buys one from an electronics store after she gets fired from her office job. It comes into use towards the end, when she smuggles it into the room of her sessions by storing it in her mouth and uses it to film her next encounter. However, it ends up having no real effect rather than making for the film's final image.]]
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''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011) is an Australian film by author Julia Leigh, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.

Lucy (Browning) is a college student constantly looking for work. One day, she answers an ad in the school newspaper, which leads her down a rabbit hole of strange prostitution and absolute discretion. Based mainly on short story ''Literature/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties'', and less on the Disney film of the same name.

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->''"We rely on mutual trust. And discretion. And I'm obliged to tell you there are heavy penalties...''very'' heavy penalties for any breaches of discretion."''

''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011) is an Australian erotic drama film written and directed by author Julia Leigh, Leigh in her directorial debut, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.

Creator/EmilyBrowning. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the first Australian film in competition in ten years since ''Film/MoulinRouge'', and was released in Australia in June of that year before getting a limited American release in December.

Lucy (Browning) is a college student constantly looking for work. One day, young university student. Her time is split between three jobs to pay tuition and rent -- daytime work in an office, evening work in a restaurant, and occasional work as a research subject -- on top of being the caretaker of an alcoholic. However, she answers still struggles to make ends meet, driving her to answer an ad in the school newspaper, newspaper promising more short-term work which leads her down a rabbit hole of strange prostitution surreal interactions.

Leigh reportedly based the film on a multitude of inspirations including Yasunari Kawabata's ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'', Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'', the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault
and absolute discretion. Based mainly on short story ''Literature/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties'', Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and less on her own experiences with dreams.

Definitely, '''''definitely''''' not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty
the Disney film of the same name.name]].
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''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011) is a, Australian film by author Julia Leigh, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.

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''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011) is a, an Australian film by author Julia Leigh, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.
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Lucy (Browning) is a college student constantly looking for work. One day, she answers an ad in the school newspaper, which leads her down a rabbit hole of strange prostitution and absolute discretion. Based mainly on short story HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties, and less on the Disney film of the same name.

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Lucy (Browning) is a college student constantly looking for work. One day, she answers an ad in the school newspaper, which leads her down a rabbit hole of strange prostitution and absolute discretion. Based mainly on short story HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties, ''Literature/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties'', and less on the Disney film of the same name.
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''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011) is a film by author Julia Leigh, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.

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''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011) is a a, Australian film by author Julia Leigh, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.



* {{Squick}}: The opening sequence is meant to invoke this in viewers, as well as Lucy's experiences as the titular sleeping beauty.
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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Pointing out the downsides and harmful consequences to this trope is practically the entire point of the film.

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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Pointing out the downsides and harmful consequences to this trope is practically the entire point of the film. Notably, in this case, there are supposed to be "rules" with how the clients interact with the main character: the clients are allowed to do whatever they want with the main character's body while she's sedated, with the stipulation that they cannot leave any marks on her and cannot penetrate her (though this goes disturbingly unspecified).

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''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011)

A film by author Julia Leigh, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.

Lucy (Browning) is a college student constantly looking for work. One day, she answers an ad in the school newspaper, which leads her down a rabbit hole of strange prostitution and absolute discretion. Based mainly on short story {{House of the Sleeping Beauties}}, and less on the Disney film of the same name.

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''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011)

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(2011) is a film by author Julia Leigh, starring Creator/EmilyBrowning.

Creator/EmilyBrowning.

Lucy (Browning) is a college student constantly looking for work. One day, she answers an ad in the school newspaper, which leads her down a rabbit hole of strange prostitution and absolute discretion. Based mainly on short story {{House of the Sleeping Beauties}}, HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties, and less on the Disney film of the same name.



[[AC: This film provides examples of]]:
* {{The Alcoholic}}: Birdmann may qualify, if pouring vodka in his cereal rather than milk is any indication.
* {{Dude Shes Like In A Coma}}: Pointing out the downsides and harmful consequences to this trope is practically the entire point of the film.
* {{Ill Girl}}: Gender-Inverted. Lucy's only close friend Birdmann is suffering from an illness that is never made clear.
* {{Platonic Life Partners}}: Lucy and Birdmann, though Birdmann seems to wish things were less platonic.
* {{Shes Got Legs}}: Lucy invokes this in all of her outfits.

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* {{The Alcoholic}}: TheAlcoholic: Birdmann may qualify, if pouring vodka in his cereal rather than milk is any indication.
* {{Dude Shes Like In A Coma}}: DudeShesLikeInAComa: Pointing out the downsides and harmful consequences to this trope is practically the entire point of the film.
* {{Ill Girl}}: Gender-Inverted. IllGirl: Gender-inverted. Lucy's only close friend Birdmann friend, Birdmann, is suffering from an illness that is never made clear.
* {{Platonic Life Partners}}: PlatonicLifePartners: Lucy and Birdmann, though Birdmann seems to wish things were less platonic.
* {{Shes Got Legs}}: ShesGotLegs: Lucy invokes this in all of her outfits.



* {{Unproblematic Prostitution}}: Lucy tries to invoke this.

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* {{Unproblematic Prostitution}}: UnproblematicProstitution: Lucy tries to invoke this.
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* {{Woman in White}}: Lucy in lingerie work, especially given that she's the only woman there in white.
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* {{Ill Girl}}: Subverted, in that it's an Ill Guy; Lucy's only close friend Birdmann is suffering from an illness that is never made clear.

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* {{Ill Girl}}: Subverted, in that it's an Ill Guy; Gender-Inverted. Lucy's only close friend Birdmann is suffering from an illness that is never made clear.
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* WomanInBlack: Lucy fits, in the dress she wears on the way to her jobs, as well as the other lingerie models.



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A film by author Julia Leigh, starring {{Emily Browning}}.

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A film by author Julia Leigh, starring {{Emily Browning}}.Creator/EmilyBrowning.
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* {{The Woman in Black}}: Lucy fits, in the dress she wears on the way to her jobs, as well as the other lingerie models.

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* {{The Woman in Black}}: WomanInBlack: Lucy fits, in the dress she wears on the way to her jobs, as well as the other lingerie models.

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* {{Dude, She's Like, In A Coma}}: Pointing out the downsides and harmful consequences to this trope is practically the entire point of the film.

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* {{Dude, She's Like, {{The Alcoholic}}: Birdmann may qualify, if pouring vodka in his cereal rather than milk is any indication.

* {{Dude Shes Like
In A Coma}}: Pointing out the downsides and harmful consequences to this trope is practically the entire point of the film.



* {{She's Got Legs}}: Lucy invokes this in all of her outfits.

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* {{She's {{Platonic Life Partners}}: Lucy and Birdmann, though Birdmann seems to wish things were less platonic.

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Sleeping Beauty (2011)

A film by author Julia Leigh, starring {{Emily Browning}}.

Lucy (Browning) is a college student constantly looking for work. One day, she answers an ad in the school newspaper, which leads her down a rabbit hole of strange prostitution and absolute discretion. Based mainly on short story {{House of the Sleeping Beauties}}, and less on the Disney film of the same name.

[[AC: This film provides examples of]]:

*{{Dude, She's Like, In A Coma}}: Pointing out the downsides and harmful consequences to this trope is practically the entire point of the film.

*{{Ill Girl}}: Subverted, in that it's an Ill Guy; Lucy's only close friend Birdmann is suffering from an illness that is never made clear.

*{{She's Got Legs}}: Lucy invokes this in all of her outfits.

*{{Squick}}: The opening sequence is meant to invoke this in viewers, as well as Lucy's experiences as the titular sleeping beauty.

*{{Unproblematic Prostitution}}: Lucy tries to invoke this.

*{{The Woman in Black}}: Lucy fits, in the dress she wears on the way to her jobs, as well as the other lingerie models.

*{{Woman in White}}: Lucy in lingerie work, especially given that she's the only woman there in white.

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