Men, ask your dates: What bothered you more, the first or second half? Would you recommend this movie to your girlfriends? Did you enjoy it? (It’s OK, you can be honest.) For conversation afterward if you see this loathsome film, here are some suggestions. Most of the audience looked like they were on dates. Nobody walked out in the second half they all left in the first half. There were walkouts at the packed screening I attended. It implicitly assigns us the POV of the men as they taunt and terrorize Jennifer in plausible ways - which are different from her killing methods, which are implausible, probably impossible, and offered and received as entertainment. No, it’s the first half of the movie that’s offensive. Consider " Saw" and anything with "chainsaw" in its title. A couple of tortures here inspired groans from the audience, but this stuff isn’t a novelty for connoisseurs of horror movies. Oh, sure, they have it coming to them - except for the pathetic Matthew, who has been a victim all his life and is now punished by Jennifer, even though she witnessed his grief and innocence. Jennifer’s methods are elaborate, bizarre and cruel. Let me suggest that if you recall any of the torture scenes described in the novels of Cormac McCarthy or Larry McMurtry, I suspect the director and writer of this film remember them as well. We will slip past the movie’s non-explanation for her survival and reappearance, to consider her revenge. Eventually, Jennifer is thoroughly raped and runs away into the woods barefoot and almost naked, and when they approach with a shotgun to eliminate her as a witness, jumps from a high bridge and disappears. The movie’s exploitation of his handicap is on a par with its cruel sadism. Otherwise, he crouches, whimpering in a corner. When the rape inevitably arrives, it is the hapless mental deficient Matthew ( Chad Lindberg) who is forced by the others to go first. Some, I am afraid, may be aroused or entertained by it. The true pornography in this film involves the dialogue and situation in the cabin before the physical assault. Indeed, if he enjoyed sex more, he might not be a rapist. Rape is a crime of violence, not sex, and the male rapist typically savors the fear he causes more than the sex. This is rape foreplay, and they stretch it out as long as they can. The fourth is mentally handicapped, and they treat him as their pet "retard." After many scenes involving alarming noises in the night and the usual Woman in Fear sequences, the men enter her cabin and terrorize her. One is their "ringleader." One is his sidekick. Of course that’s where Jennifer stupidly asks directions and reveals where she’s going to ignorant, leering phallus carriers. Once we know this, we start waiting for the gas station occupied by demented rednecks. The woman, Jennifer ( Sarah Butler), is a writer who rents a cabin in the woods where she plans to stay by herself. That set aside, let’s see what this movie does. No one who commits a hate crime ever thinks his victim is innocent. The necessity of revenge is embedded in the darker places of our minds, and most hate speech is driven by "wrongs" invented in unbalanced minds. The ideal outcome would be two people unharmed in the first place. If you kill me, you have committed another one. only much, much worse.First, let’s dispatch with the fiction that the film is about "getting even." If I rape you, I have committed a crime. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer's sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away.Īs time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. Summary: I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book.
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