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Fascinating film, but the title?


Plenty of positives, but the title suggests something very different - unless someone can enlighten me on what I missed.

It seems that the question of rape is discussed quite a bit on the forum, but my conclusion is with those who observe that it wasn't rape, but a drunken misadventure. From the title and the tone of the film, I was expecting the town locals to turn on Grant in a Wicker Man kind of way. There was so much potential for this.




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It was based on the 1961 Kenneth Cook novel "Wake in Fright."

Cook took the title from an old curse, "May you dream of the devil and wake in fright."

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rape? drunken misadventure?
i'm not seeing either in this movie

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