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In real life, would someone like "Jennifer" in this movie really be able to successfully pull of all she did?

posted 2 years ago by TheMan18 (13184)
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And, besides that little "legal" aspect of it all, would she really be able to successfully in vengeance confront those guilty men culprits and brutally kill them out of vengeance and succeed and also live normal life as a result?

And that includes the killing of Matthew and whatnot?

In other words, how realistic and plausible is everything that we saw in this movie, thanks.

[–] Mynvosa (117) 2 years ago

Almost certainly no. But isn't that really the case with most revenge films? The everyman transforming into a Liam Neeson style avenger after the death of a loved one is a staple of cinema at this point. Revenge films are more about getting the audiencce to revel in the catharsis of vigilante justice being dispenced when traditional systems have failed. I think this is particularly true in rape revenge films where a large percenntage of the audience can identify with the protagonist's turmoil. The end of Promising Young Woman probably renders the most realisitic depiction of what would actually happen if an every-person attempted to take violent revenge. But most rape revenge films aren't trying to be grounded docu-dramas, they're lite fantasies. That's my take anyway :)

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 2 years ago

On a side note...

And yes I know all about what happens in the real world and sadly how overall, unfortunate it is and I absolutely DO agree with the fact that in general, those things shouldn't happen in the first place but also...

Films like this sometimes made me wonder if such men who perpetuate such matters are awful, wrong and horrible beyond them simply being guilty offenders and in need of legal punishment and a victim, though undeniably true, in need of help and rehabilitation ala higher form of bullying.

But if they are truly horrible and awful monsters and that it wouldn't be too wrong or even excessive to exact destructive vengeance on them.

And "I Spit on Your Grave" films with lead female victim protagonists, for one, often stick to the latter rather than MERELY a former point of view.

And I suppose male perpetrators also have other characteristics and ways their deeds as such affect others that even allows say removal of their organs like that even a thinkable let alone a doable thing - and I am sure plenty of philosophers many decades if not hundreds of years wrote about it as much as the simple and just and modest but unsubtly angry ones among the "general public" including very much in today's modern times.