I think for me, what they did in this film was far beyond anything I had seen in a film before regarding sexual assault.
Virtually every film has presented rape in the way of forced sexual intercourse via genitalia. I have never seen anything like this in a film. I mean yeah ok it fits the genre, but heck I cannot stomach seeing any form of rape in a movie, no matter how explicit or not it is.
However, let me amend something. What WE all interpret rape to be is different from how the blind guy interprets rape to be. HE is telling himself it is not rape in order to NOT be the bad guy in this situation. He is NOT forcing sex with the girl, he is not forcing himself on her, but yes she is sexually assaulting her with the baster. He is portraying himself to be the victim in all of it. Losing his daughter, which is horrible, so he deserves his daughter back as compensation, even though he did take the money. But I believe HE is trying to justify what he is doing with the baster to say he is not a bad guy because he is not forcing sex on her. So he is saying he is not a rapist.
It does make sense within the context of the movie even if the audience knows better.
((Damn the remakes, Save the originals.))
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