Yes, I know. We are meant to cheer for Vivien as she triumphantly returns to have her moment of revenge, all beautiful and with her shopping bags full of thousands of dollars worth of clothes. She was such a likeable character that we did cheer.
But really, the chances of a sex worker coming into your high class boutique having a black credit card that wasn’t stolen would be next to zero. The staff worked on commission probably had kids to feed and mortgages to pay so clearing out the sex worker who would deter customers and would be almost certain to not be able to pay for anything seemed eminently sensible. They were wrong, but how on earth would they have known that?
This movie is problematic in many ways but in this instance, my sympathies lie with the saleswomen.
Let’s not forget Kit offering a blow job to the elderly gentleman in front of his wife at the hotel reception. What on earth did they do to deserve that crudeness. I would be furious if someone spoke to my grandparents like that. But again, it is apparently another stand up and cheer moment.
And Edward is just vile when he gave her the eye to give him his paid for blow job when she was happily watching tv.