Editor Kim Ngan tells the truth behind the film about prostitutes "Quynh Doll"

To put "Quynh Doll" into a series, I have to ask for permission.

- After "Mua bong may" and "Tinh khuc bach duong", you participated in writing the script for "Quynh bup be". From what materials did you write the script for this film and why did you choose the topic of prostitutes?

- Social evils have always been a topic I have been interested in for many years since I was an editor and MC in the column "The Nest Builder". Social evils such as prostitution, drugs, domestic violence... have always been the regular topics of the column and I think that no matter how many conversations and reports are done, it is still not enough to end these evils.

Prostitution is a painful social evil, it affects many families, lives, and destinies… For more than 10 years of “The Nest Builder”, I don’t remember how many stories of girls working in this profession, of madams, and even of wives who lost their husbands to prostitution have been reported. Before that, I only had contempt and fear when thinking about the sellers and buyers in prostitution….

Women are willing to do this dirty job, destroying families. Men with wives and children, who love to have fun, compete with their friends, indulge in commercial love affairs and end up in ruins… But the first conversation with a prostitute has somehow changed my perspective and way of thinking. In this profession, there are girls whose miserable fate has pushed them into it and tied them tightly by invisible strings made of blood, making it impossible for them to escape… Such people are truly pitiful!

Quynh is the real name of a very young girl who worked as a prostitute and was arrested and taken to the Labor Education Center No. 2 (Ba Vi Rehabilitation Center - Hanoi). During an interview here, I paid special attention to that girl, partly because she was too young, partly because she was taciturn and refused to answer the interview. I ignored her because I had already gotten quite a lot of information. When I was about to leave, I approached her and whispered: "Do you want to say anything to your family? Give me your address and I will text you." Unexpectedly, she turned stern and said: "I have nothing to say to them!". My intuition told me that it would be a difficult story.

I decided to stay and after many hours of sitting and whispering, she told me her life story, the life of a girl over 19 years old who spent nearly 4 years living in a devil's cave! I listened to Quynh's story and sometimes trembled... As for Quynh, when I trusted her enough, she told it calmly, indifferently as if there was no more emotion left in this woman with a young and innocent face...

My niece and I have kept in touch since then, so when I decided to put Quynh on a series, I had to ask for permission. She agreed on the condition that I change her name, but I refused. If I changed to another name, I would be alienated from Quynh's story. I persuaded and coaxed her again, and Quynh agreed to let me use her full name with the doll nickname that I had given her since then... Quynh said: "Why do you give in to me so much?

- In the media over the years, there have been continuous stories of jealousy because of mistresses. In your script, how much of the material did you use from real life and were the jealousy attacks that caused a stir in the media fictionalized in "Quynh Doll"??

- Talking about the jealousy beatings in Quynh doll that the audience will see, it might only be 10% compared to what I know through Quynh. All the girls in Quynh's "cave boarding house" were beaten by jealousy, some were beaten 2-3 times, some were beaten only once... And there were terrible jealousy beatings, like the recent incidents. Quynh once told a story about a customer who initially came to have fun because his family was in trouble and then got sucked in and fell in love with a cave girl from Lang Son.

The wife knew, after many days of stalking, that she knew all the steps of this girl, what time she went to work, what time she came back, where she ate snails, which sugarcane juice shop... And she took revenge with a wordless jealousy. When her husband had a long business trip, far from Hanoi, she hired a drug addict infected with HIV to buy sex with the girl, forcing him to promise to make her contract the disease of the century. When her husband returned, she quietly threw on the table a stack of photos of the drug addict sleeping with the Lang Son girl and told her husband: That girl now has "Et". If you want to die, go to her...

And the husband disappeared without a trace. The girl died of AIDS shortly after, taking with her countless customers who had slept with her before her husband could tell her the bad news. There were countless jealous beatings, tearing clothes, pouring salt and chili, even pouring elephant glue into the private parts of the prostitutes. There were even wives who hired gangs of bull-headed men to gang rape and torture their “rivals” until they died and came back to life….

- Did you watch the first episodes of the show? What do you think about the actors' performances? Who impressed you the most and why?

- I watch it to see if the character of Quynh Bup Be is true to the original story. Mai Hong Phong is a very good director. He pushes the stories to the end with an attractive and impressive way of telling. In Quynh Bup Be, besides the main character with a tearful life, I think the role of Lan - an old prostitute has left a deep impression.

In Quynh's story, Lan is a prostitute full of contradictions. It is the contradiction of a good girl with a vicious prostitute, otherwise she cannot survive in this devil's cave. It is the contradiction of an older sister who loves Quynh because she resembles her younger sister, but is jealous because she is younger, prettier, and has more customers than herself... Lan's tragic fate when she wants to be a good person but no one allows her to become a good person will make the audience feel heartbroken by her status as an expired prostitute... In general, with the thorny topic of prostitution, the chosen actress performed her best, to help the audience visualize most clearly, although not completely, about a life that if not inside it, we will find it hard to believe that it really exists in this world.

- Women nowadays talk a lot about the “13th zodiac animal”, including prostitutes as a never-ending topic with many different emotions. What do you think about them and what advice do you have for them?

- I will not say more about prostitutes even though they play a major role in many broken and ruined families. What I am interested in are women who are determined to destroy other people's families just for money - they are the "13th zodiac animals" who are the most cunning, the most brazen and ignore the law of cause and effect. What they need is money. For example: "13th zodiac animals" want money so they flirt with a guy, his wife finds out, the other person's family falls apart, they get divorced... then suddenly realize that staying with this guy will not bring them much money. They go "sleep" with another guy, even disregarding everything to have a child, as if it is the bread and butter of their life...

After all, the "13th zodiac animal" has a dark heart and forgets the law of cause and effect: Whatever she sows today, her child will suffer tomorrow. Is there any in-law family happy to welcome a new daughter-in-law with doubts in their hearts, "If her mother is like that, she will be like that too"... People also talk a lot about the womanizing man, that if he keeps doing all the bad things, his daughter will pay back the world with suffering in the future...

The marriage was destined to end.

-Happy women have a lot of energy. You are happy with your new love so you continuously produce movie scripts revolving around the themes of love and marriage?

- Happiness or not depends on each person's perspective. I am a person who "knows enough is enough" so I feel happy. The marriage was predestined so I broke up, gently, just like that, because he is still a very good person. My children are good and successful, love and care for their mother. What more could I ask for? Work is still busy every day with many new fields that I dare to try at an age when many of my friends have given up - that is the happiest thing.

Energy is abundant when we have a favorite job with a topic that is still piled up in our minds. So writing scripts, writing books, participating in big events... For me, it is still very simple as when I first started working for VTV. The contribution of love is also indispensable. Thank you for giving me a safe and reliable support with a great love that has been tested through many storms. He has changed from a clumsy lover who understands women's psychology very poorly to a more responsible husband. For me, that is enough.

Your house has a lot of roses? Who loves flowers?

- Me. I love roses. Before, he made a peach garden because he loved peach flowers. Then he gave in and made a rose garden with many different varieties of roses… He said it was a big sacrifice!

- Thanks for the chat!