DvSag
The Void in the Triforce
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EDIT BY MASES: Moved to Movies section, but I'm adding this notice because this post contains gruesome material. Please disregard this thread if you are not interested in gruesome, torture, or horror films.
I just saw The Last House on the Left last night.
It wasn't the greatest movie I've ever seen, but there is one particular scene that is still burnt uncomfortably into memory.
Early into the movie, there's a scene where one of the two teenage girls calls one of their captors "pathetic" and is stabbed repeatedly, left to bleed out and ultimately die in her friend's arms. This actually isn't too bad, because I've seen many deaths in many movies in the past and though this was morbid, I'm very used to something like this by now. Gruesome, and very sad. Just right for a horror flick.
However, this isn't what got me agitated. What really got me was the next segment. After the girl is left dying on the ground, they strip the second girl and the main villain brutally rapes her from behind. I've seen movies that have held the subject of rape, but I've never seen a rape scene portrayed like this. Wes Craven (Director) filmed the entire rape from start to finish. Every inappropriate motion, every tear from the girl's eyes, all on film. Not only was this unnerving, but the entire time the girl is crying and screaming, and halfway through the girl cries for help from the teenage boy character who had unintentionally got her into this situation and is now sitting and watching the entire thing happen.
I'm still very irritated and disturbed by this portion of the movie. The rest of the movie was just a murder-spree gore-fest. People beat the crap out of each other, body parts are removed, people shot and lobotomized, and one character explodes; but nothing makes me feel more disgusting than the rape scene. It was all I could think of through the entire movie, and even through the night and today.
I know how the magic of cinema works, but I liked it better when some of the more carnal things in movies were left implied for the imagination to translate.
I just saw The Last House on the Left last night.
It wasn't the greatest movie I've ever seen, but there is one particular scene that is still burnt uncomfortably into memory.
Early into the movie, there's a scene where one of the two teenage girls calls one of their captors "pathetic" and is stabbed repeatedly, left to bleed out and ultimately die in her friend's arms. This actually isn't too bad, because I've seen many deaths in many movies in the past and though this was morbid, I'm very used to something like this by now. Gruesome, and very sad. Just right for a horror flick.
However, this isn't what got me agitated. What really got me was the next segment. After the girl is left dying on the ground, they strip the second girl and the main villain brutally rapes her from behind. I've seen movies that have held the subject of rape, but I've never seen a rape scene portrayed like this. Wes Craven (Director) filmed the entire rape from start to finish. Every inappropriate motion, every tear from the girl's eyes, all on film. Not only was this unnerving, but the entire time the girl is crying and screaming, and halfway through the girl cries for help from the teenage boy character who had unintentionally got her into this situation and is now sitting and watching the entire thing happen.
I'm still very irritated and disturbed by this portion of the movie. The rest of the movie was just a murder-spree gore-fest. People beat the crap out of each other, body parts are removed, people shot and lobotomized, and one character explodes; but nothing makes me feel more disgusting than the rape scene. It was all I could think of through the entire movie, and even through the night and today.
I know how the magic of cinema works, but I liked it better when some of the more carnal things in movies were left implied for the imagination to translate.
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