a bit more about The Piano

[kanzeon_2040]

I wanted to write more about it, but was sleepy and T was here and then Friday was busy, etc.

The huge problem I see with The Piano is not a unique problem, especially for mainstream media from before the #MeToo movement

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[matrixmann]

"But watching it now feels like watching a two-hour-long rape scene."

Oh, then you should go watch any of the "I spit on your grave"-movies - and then you know what that much, much more looks like.

In general - the movie is said to take place mid-19th century. So what do you expect? Him asking her out and as she says no he immediately gives up and accepts it?
World history isn't a fucking (American) liberal dream theater. As simple as it is.

And if you either think it's morally okay or not - that doesn't change how it was.

It should rather teach you something else: That the comfortable life you're used to as being completely self-evident, it stands on very thin stilts. Historically, it's very recent - and it took a lot of effort to get there.

This world isn't the elementary playground as you college-educated Americans imagine it to be in your safe bubble and in your cloud of school miseducation.