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There is something terribly wrong with you.
The little boy left alone on the dock was heartbreaking.
What you said echoes my sentiments. I love Frances Mcdormand and rented the movie because of her. I have always assumed I could watch a great actor reading a dictionary. This movie proved me so wrong. The idea was good; but it needed more compelling characters and a kind of quirky energy to make it worthwhile. It came off as a very tired, sadly cliched documentary.
(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.
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.
McGill 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
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.
Having found the premise and execution contrived and silly, it's hard for me distinguish between bad writing and bad acting. Maybe Ryan sensed he was interested in a hard person devoid of personality and struggled with that implausible interest. Their conversations were immature, jokes were childishly sexual. What adults tell dick and vagina jokes, ever, let alone on a 1st date? I can't believe he would pursue her after she coldly spit in his coffee, and am even more puzzled that he would continue after witnessing her drunk hooker impersonation. In any case, he never seemed like a competent doctor with the intelligence to graduate medical school, let alone practice. And that idiotic dinner conversation. Mom doesn't understand pediatrics and Ryan respond meaningfully about his profession. And that's just Ryan. Ever single character was immensely unlikable and unbelievable. Good God, that was an awful movie.
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.
Other people, apparently, really need to respond rudely.
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