did they rape her?
in the motel.
i can't remember.
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some great points made in this thread
i think that to me it seems the intent was to imply that she was raped. the evidence/commentary from the actors is pretty convincing.
just my two cents.
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i think that to me it seems the intent was to imply that she was raped. the evidence/commentary from the actors is pretty convincing.
I believe that was indeed the intent at first, so the actors are being truthful. It was only later on in the movie's development that the intent was changed to what we have in the released film.
No blah, blah, blah!
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Just watched it now. I don't believe she was raped, the intention of the villains was to portray her as a junkie and murderer. But it was quite advanced for its time, because they probably really meant to show her as a promiscuous, drug-addicted murderess, but they didn't emphasise the sex part, given the censorship issues of the time...
shareI think the answer is that whether or not she was raped is left to your imagination. I think there is a strong implication that she was, given the line, "I want to watch." But thankfully, as an audience, we didn't have to. I hate when rape scenes are graphically depicted in movies. Later in the movie there is a line suggesting that she wasn't raped, just drugged, but as others have pointed out, this may have been due to the fact that they had to appease Hays Code censors. In a lot of ways leaving it ambiguous is more powerful, because it leaves the terror of the scene to be played out in the dark regions of the viewer's imagination.
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