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_lime_

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May 22, 2010 01:31

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 ( Read more... )

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instantamazon May 22 2010, 07:29:02 UTC

torture and rape is pretty synonymous to me. i can't watch either.

i am glad the character got what was coming to him though. bleh.

_lime_ May 22 2010, 12:24:38 UTC

When I was thinking about torture, I was sort of picturing the over the top almost cartoony torture of films like Saw and Hostel, movies that exist for the gore and make a lot of money. Thinking about it, when torture is portrayed realistically, an audience probably reacts the same way they did to the movie I saw.

But yeah it's, not exactly fun to watch :(

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_lime_ May 23 2010, 12:01:06 UTC

Just thinking about the curb scene still makes me wince...

and I really liked the movie too! I can't wait for the sequels...

nayumitenakka May 23 2010, 07:58:51 UTC

What? I thought David Fincher was in the process of making this film? Or is there another film already made?

nayumitenakka May 23 2010, 07:59:25 UTC

Wait nevermind. I looked it up.

_lime_ May 23 2010, 12:07:02 UTC

I just looked it up too. AMERICAN REMAKE. *sigh*

I wonder who they are going to choose to play Lisbeth (the girl). I have no idea who would be tough enough... they'll probably choose someone like Megan Fox XD

nayumitenakka May 23 2010, 17:25:04 UTC

Oh maaaaaaan I hope they don't. I mean, David Fincher has pretty good taste in filmmaking and I hope he picks someone totally unknown and fantastic for the main role.

greymattre May 23 2010, 18:39:09 UTC

Depictions of rape and torture (even the Saw/Hostel type) make me physically ill. But anyway, I think rape is harder for people to handle because it turns something that is supposed to be beautiful and pleasurable (i.e. sex) into something violent and painful. "Giving yourself" to someone is a show of trust. Violating that trust shows a complete disregard for that person. So I think it's not the physicality of rape that makes it so hard to stomach, as much as it is phycological or spiritual implications. In the same way that murder is harder to stomach than accidental death.

_lime_ May 24 2010, 00:31:41 UTC

You said that MUCH more elegantly than I could.

PS I think you would still like the movie.