You're being sarcastic right?
The moment the Professor talked about FGM in class you honestly didn't know that wasn't going to come back?
IMO, that was horribly bad screenwriting/foreshadowing.
I also have a problem with the scene in the village. Not b/c it was scary or gross, but b/c it made NO sense & done just to provide "shock".
Think about it, we're told by the professor that FGM in South American tribes is considered a "right of passage" from girl to womanhood.
Why would the villagers show that respect to this girl?
She's either just food (as they put her & her friends in the same pen they kept the pigs), or she's their enemy. So why would they circumcise their food? Or show the same respect to their enemy that they do their own kind?
I think the main problem, IMO, with the film was that Roth DIDN'T understand the natives. He couldn't decide if he wanted them to be the victims or the crazy savages.
I was very much looking forward to this film. I was disappointed.
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soccerstacy14
9 years ago
My take on it is that they were going to mutilate her because they wanted her in their tribe. The man native woman had a liking to Justine since she arrived. Maybe Justine was going to take over?
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mechajutaro
9 years ago
Maybe Justine was going to take over?
Woulda been a highly refreshing iota of originality in this otherwise genre reverent yet ho hum production
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natedgreat11
9 years ago
No, the scene where shes "inspecting" the girls, the mutilation is a right of womanhood, the first 2 were not virgins, she was. whioch is why they were going to do it to her. the other 2 were already "women"
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mechajutaro
9 years ago
No, the scene where shes "inspecting" the girls, the mutilation is a right of womanhood, the first 2 were not virgins, she was.
Props to Roth then, whatever one's feelings on Inferno are; rare is the horror film gutsy enough to invert the much hackneyed "virgin home free; every other gal dies" trope
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sir rooke
9 years ago
Maybe I missed something ... didn't the virgin go home free & every other gal died?
(** SPOILER! ** the trope also made it out alive)
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nycboy94117
8 years ago
Technically, the other 2 weren't virgins tho because they were lesbos but i see your point.
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Szabu
8 years ago
You know what IS bad writing? The fact that all this didn't factor in at the ending. Think about it, FGM was her main concern at the beginning, and here was the opportunity to use the media to bring attention to it. All she had to do is tell the truth. Rather she lied to further some other agenda. Disappointing.
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