Rape told in a sentimental tone

I just watched this movie on cable, not knowing what it was really about. The overall tone, from start to finish, was one of sentimentality. This has become fashionable in the past decade or so, apparently having started with the independent film business, which really is just a special genre of sorts. I don't object to sentimentality per se, but I do not like movies that rely mainly on the sentimentality tone and offer little else in the way of plot or substance. Many of the movies on cable nowadays are of this ilk, and the main reason is probably that they are cheap to make, which means that the cable movie channels can acquire the distribution rights at very low cost compared to any box office hits. True box office hits make their way to pay-per-view but don't make it to the subscription premium channels for a very long time, until after rentals and sales of DVDs have pretty much dried up. So these cheaply made movies are standard fare for the subscription movie channels. Most of it is just barely watchable, but I was bothered by this movie because it quite clearly is based on the premise that you can tell a story of rape and use a sentimental tone, and that people will think you have made a good movie. I'm not buying it. I do not think that the sentimental tone of this movie is the least bit appropriate for telling a story about rape. There is nothing the least bit sentimental about rape. People who have suffered violent sexual assault ordinarily carry emotional scars for the remainder of their lives, and often end up committing suicide, sometimes after decades of inability to sleep through the night. They never, ever truly forget the experience. They are changed in the most fundamental way possible, forever. There is nothing sentimental about it. The people who made this movie were clueless.