I wanted to check out this movie because I heard it was a really good movie. That it was really bloody and gory and a really good revenge movie. Of course, to make a revenge movie, you need an event/scene to make the revenge happen...to make it all worth while.
**SPOILERS AHEAD**
I thought and wanted more blood and gore. Disturbing to watch at first because of the rape scene, and it doesn't help that it took up half the movie. This wasn't just a revenge nor just a rape movie, it was a half and half and I would've loved to see more revenge...than rape. Too much rape for my taste...kind of a weird start off. I don't see too many rape movies where the first half hour is seeing her half naked, making it seem like she was just asking for it, seeing the rape (go on for another half hour), then seeing her naked again for a little more while...very uncomfortable. To me, it felt like they were trying to have her seduce you at first, to show that the boys weren't ALL in the wrong, like some of it was on her for walking around half naked. Then the rape scene. This takes TOO LONG. Bluntly, half of the scene was rape foreplay. Disgusting but true. Then they get on with it and they prolong that by having her walk away slowly, in a daze, into the forest and somehow, the guys are already waiting in an area that she walks into. Then it continues, the disgusting partake in the event of why I do not trust most men. I don't trust people in general, but men the most.
This also shows that, the authority isn't good for shit. I saw some comments on the trailer page in Youtube and a couple of people mentioned, "Well, they didn't have to die" or "Well, they didn't deserve to die", and then topped it off with, "We let the authorities take justice". Yeah, because the authority takes justice for people all the time. Especially, when they pat you down, smell your ass, grab your titties and call for more rapists backup. Let's just face the truth, some justice is served and some are not. We have many real cases that involve injustices. People not bring put away as they should and even excessive "justice" being brought upon citizens.
Anyways, after the grotesque scene, we're still left with her naked body. For another 15 minutes, we see her walk in the forest..naked. As if seeing her half naked, like as if we're supposed to enjoy that right before a rape scene, wasn't enough. We had to get full on nudity right after a rape scene for a few more minutes. It's just uncomfortable at this point. And you also wonder to yourself...why is this bitch walking so slow? Yes, she's traumatized, but she's walking as slow as a zombie (Walking Dead slow), when these men can easily just walk over, hell, not even walk over, just shoot her. But for some reason, they also slowly follow her to a bridge. They prepare to kill her and she raises her arm. At this point, you know that she's about to jump, no one in their right mind should raise their arm waiting for a shotgun death and yet, these guys didn't realize that. She jumps and is not seen, seems like for an hour or so? Scene "changed" and they were still there so they must've been there for awhile. What I wonder, is how did she get away?
I discussed many possibilities in my head, maybe she swam underwater all the way downstream...miraculously somehow. And then I thought, maybe she swam underwater to the bridge and came up for air under the bridge so they wouldn't see her and just waited there...forever. Of course, you know that she is not dead. Otherwise, what kind of movie is this....a rape movie...which would not fend well in the industry...not even in the porn industry.You find out that she survived in the woods the whole time...so how does a city writer know how to survive in the woods? How to hunt rats and fish old-school style. Maybe internal survival skills took over...hmmm, I kind of highly doubt that with our people in this country now and the fact that she couldn't even hold her wine glass and put her laptop on her lap at the same time. But she survived and now she's out for revenge.
The revenge is pretty realistic. Not too graphic at all really, it was...pretty much like I said, realistic. Most people are violent but not too violent to where you start going Hostel and Saw mode, super brutal. But for a movie, I don't want realistic, I want movie. I want blood and gore and lots of torture. And there was NOT ENOUGH. I wanted long torture and lots of bleeding over time. Some more body parts getting cut off. The revenge was short. I don't know if they meant to make it "short and sweet". But revenge should be LONG and SAVORED. Especially when the damn rape scene and half naked and full nudity scenes were TWICE as long as the revenge.
Regardless, I liked it. I never dislike revenge. I'm a Buddhist and even though we are not supposed to condone to violence...we believe in Karma and I'm a believer in harsh karma, harsh VISUAL karma.
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