Five Oscar nominations
Including movie of the year, best leading actress and best director.
HOW?
How is right. This is an awful, completely unrealistic and poorly acted and written movie. Medical students partying and raping on a weekly basis? Not any medical school I've every heard of, as students need to study around the clock. The dialogue is atrocious, scripted more for edgy adolescents than adults. This woman should have been contained by security at the university and arrested on the spot. Horribly unlikable protagonist, for whom I felt not a shred of sympathy. Yikes.
share"raping on a weekly basis?"
The whole premise of this movie revolves around a single incident .
the entire story's raison d'etre is about a single incident ruining many lives.
I'm referring to the ridiculous comment from the dean that she deals with such complaints on a weekly basis, as if this is common place.
shareShow me a medical school that has no party culture and I'll show you a dean who always tells the truth.
shareMcGill University and Georgetown University Medical Schools. A party culture in medical school is an oxymoron. Anyone who partied, drank and blacked out wouldn't last the first semester. I also find the message sent by the filmmakers that there also exists a rape culture, that is apparently rampant and waived away as unimportant or amusing by all parties concerned. It is this proghanized and absurd depiction in the movie that undermines the core subject of consent, if you want to be taken seriously.
The whole movie erred in the wrong diirection. The avenger is repeatedly shown, not on a medical school campus, but at bars acting like a drunken slut, or a drunken prostitute, vulgarly telling and laughing at penis and vagina jokes, herpes jokes and spit in a customer's coffee. When the settings, characters and dialogue undermine the point, there quickly becomes no point
" not on a medical school campus, but at bars"
Thats because she left that medical school a decade ago.
I also find the message sent by the filmmakers that there also exists a rape culture...
There is ,it exists in all walks of life from ghettos to law school.
Its not everyday for every woman granted , but that doesent mean its not an issue.
and perhaps med school wasnt the best example.
The film was not saying this is a med school problem
it exists everywhere.
Yes, I wish they would not have picked a med school. Largely because of the dean commenting that such accusations are made weekly, the students are routinely drunk and the implication that such things cannot be taken seriously.
Additionally, it is strongly suggested that wealthy otherwise impeccable and respectable medical students and professionals engage in these practices, find it amusing and always get away with it without a drop of conscience. That population is being targeted for the audience. They are the remorseless rapists. Yet they are not the ones she goes after. It's all muddled and mixed together and men in general are the scum bags. There are lots of women who deliberately seek casual sex and one night stands just as men do. Clubs, bars resorts, beaches are full of people doing just that, drunk or sober. She goes to these places and willingly walks out the door with every man she encounters. Just as they are willingly walking out the door with any woman they encounter. So, she pretends to be what most woman who hang out in such places already are looking for in the first place. And she never resists. She simply reveals herself as sober and further advances stop. She never encountered rapists. Just willing participants. Which is the ultimate conclusion of the meatmarket culture of casual one night stands.
Rape is a serious subject. The movie disrespected men, women, medical students and real rape victims.
it is strongly suggested that wealthy otherwise impeccable and respectable medical students and professionals engage in these practices
lets omit the medical bit
Yes I bet they do *some* " wealthy otherwise impeccable and respectable students" have a sense of entitlement and are used to getting their own way ....
(that is indeed where the title of the film comes from)
. She goes to these places and willingly walks out the door with every man she encounters. Just as they are willingly walking out the door with any woman they encounter. So, she pretends to be what most woman who hang out in such places already are looking for in the first place. And she never resists. She simply reveals herself as sober and further advances stop. She never encountered rapists. Just willing participants.
No , that analysis is as flawed as a burglar saying "well the door was open!"
She doesent 'willingly walk out door'
she plays the part , like an undercover cop , of a woman too wasted to be "willing" or to give consent.
hence , she DID encounter rapists
(The area to respond is getting very narrow)
I guess the idea that both men and women looking for casual one night stands, in which she places herself, sailed oner your head. She does leave willingly. She was coherent enough to know she was leaving, enough to say "yes" when invited to a guy's apartment for a drink. Then when she said "stop" or words to that effect occurred, they stopped. No rape happened.
So, beneath the veneer of the otherwise incredibly busy with their studies in pursuit of a noble profession lies a rapist, because they can get away with it? Well, there we have it. Hard working people are really immoral, self-entitled opportunists, who sneer and snicker, because they can. Okay, well, this movie clearly found its audience.