YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Before he began appearing at film festivals and collecting literary awards, when he was just another resourceful punk from Russia's rust belt, Vassily Sigarev had a job delivering prostitutes to their customers in the concrete-slab housing blocks of Nizhny Tagil.
In the game, the player takes on the role of an ex-convict who roams the streets and is rewarded for taking on free-lance crime jobs, like gunning down a competing drug dealer or delivering prostitutes to the policemen's ball.
Six livery cab drivers are also accused of taking part in the business, delivering the prostitutes to apartments and hotels.
When a prostitute delivers a lecture about marriage and its discontents, he wisely observes: "This woman worked in the trenches of marital warfare.
The government estimated that if it could deliver as many as 320,000 free condoms each month and train dozens of prostitutes to counsel safe-sex practices to their peers, AIDS infections could be significantly reduced.
She has to deliver sandwiches, hot tea and a word of warning to the village's street prostitutes, get a load of washing on and somehow, some way, swerve Shackleton's Medusa-with-cramps glare.
And in the scenes that trace his character's encounter with a prostitute (the excellent Merritt Janson), he combines naturalistic and expressionist techniques to deliver a precise and painful anatomy of one man's fully willed self-humiliation.
But O'Hagan reveals that as the deadline to deliver a manuscript approached, Assange was "totally shocked" at the prospect of his own story being told, describing people who write about their family as "prostitutes".
Three teen-age girls in tight sparkly tops — prostitutes — were being delivered in a fishing boat, and the men slung them over their shoulders like bags of cement.
20 40 Frank delivers a homage to the prostitute, who has paid a price for her licentious ways, by praising her skills in rather graphic terms.
