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Originally Posted by Frank Gunn
To avoid fainting, keep repeating:
It's only a movie.
Only a movie.
Only a movie.
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I have to disagree, and I know where this is going to lead, but I figure something is worth saying.
I write scripts, I even run a website for screenwriters. I've written nine scripts, and I'm working my ass off to try and get them sold. But one thing I would never include in a script is this kind of brutality. It could be used, without being seen, as a character development tool... that's true. But it also alienates the audience, I find. There's such a large number of women who've gone through this, why would you want to remind them of it?
It could be said that, reading that last paragraph, that I wouldn't include such a thing because, alienating the audience, you would be losing money... but that's not the case with me. It's a moral decision.
These things happen, this brutality, and I think that once you decide to film a thing like this in such detail, it ceases to be just a movie.
There's certainly a hypocrisy involved with film, where murder and torture and all other sorts of nastiness is accepted, but this is often more taboo than, well, pretty much anything else, so I agree with you, Frank, in theory.
There are films that I watch and enjoy which have rape scenes in them... I'm not particularly fond of the scenes like in A Clockwork Orange, Thelma and Louise or Once Upon a Time in America. But I get past them... but this film centralizes on the issue, and I think that it crossed a line, whether for the sake of shock value or art, and became a little disrespectful of victims who went through something similar.
It's just my opinion, and I don't want to take away from the film what people have gotten, nor do I want them to change their minds about enjoying it. I'm just speaking my piece (peace?), that's all.
I try and steer clear of films like this, and along the ilk of Boys Don't Cry. People make money off of the films, they win awards, but none of the proceeds go towards victims, or shelters... it's like making a profit off of human misery... and here's that hipocritical view again... being desensitized to violence is one thing... but I don't want to be desensitized to this type of violence. To me, it's the worst of the worst.