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Tonight I went to go see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with a friend of mine. During the movie the main character is brutally raped, and the entire audience, including my friend, stiffened, turned away, and gasped. Me too. I kept expecting the camera to cut away, like in American Films, but instead the director of the movie chose to depict it clearly, if not graphically.
Why is it that we can watch people being horrifically murdered, tortured, and mutilated, but watching a a woman (or man) get raped is absolutely unbearable? Is it because death and pain happen to every one? Because death is inevitable, it can be funny? Or is it that rape personifies the true forcing of another, taking away every ounce of free will, and leaving them to suffer the psychological consequences? Having the victim walk away knowing the assaulter did exactly has he/she pleased, and they had no power to stop it? Perhaps victimization is what makes is so hard to watch.
Any way, in the movie, the girl has actually managed to record the whole assault, and comes back later to taser him, tie him up, anally rape him with a dildo, and tattoo "I AM A RAPIST AND SICK SADIST" on his stomach.
Why is it that we can watch people being horrifically murdered, tortured, and mutilated, but watching a a woman (or man) get raped is absolutely unbearable? Is it because death and pain happen to every one? Because death is inevitable, it can be funny? Or is it that rape personifies the true forcing of another, taking away every ounce of free will, and leaving them to suffer the psychological consequences? Having the victim walk away knowing the assaulter did exactly has he/she pleased, and they had no power to stop it? Perhaps victimization is what makes is so hard to watch.
Any way, in the movie, the girl has actually managed to record the whole assault, and comes back later to taser him, tie him up, anally rape him with a dildo, and tattoo "I AM A RAPIST AND SICK SADIST" on his stomach.