male rape?

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There is and it's a major plot point. Nothing explicitly seen on the screen though

the main character is attacked, but he has to be told he's been raped when he gains consciousness.

SPOILERS

There was a male rape scene but it is not fully seen. In the scene when Finn is running off and we expect him to go to Maya who had promised this would be his night. But he gets jumped running across the estate. The voice over says at that point that with the Iskanani people, rape is a part of warfare. The raped warrior is so humiliated that his warrior spirit abandons him (or her which would be logical but the voice over only speaks about men. It then says that to recover his spirit, the warrior must find the rapist, cut his heart out and display it to the tribe regaining his pride and standing. (All reports I've read about rape to either gender speaks of victim feeling unclean and humiliated even though the worst thing they've done is may be to be in an unsafe place which doesn't make it their fault). After that voice over, I was expecting the attacker tio rape Finn. However, there is nothing visual depicting that even by implication. Finn's wish to not have anyone know about it re-enforces the idea that he was raped in the attack. I think his mother saw evidence when examining his lower back about what actually happened as she become more horrified and then agrees to not say anything. for all her faults, she cared enough about him to not further humiliate him in front of people whose opinion he cared about.

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While it was certainly a kind of rape, I think it's much more likely that it was with an implement, not the rapist having anal sex with the victim. The latter wouldn't have left the kind of visible wounds that his mother reacts to when she looks him over the next day.