I saw this movie last night

I am female, saw this a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, and definitely approached and perceived the film as more of a feminist revenge manifesto. If you have the opportunity, I would really encourage you to watch it if it piqued your interest at all.

As a trauma/rape survivor, I found it deeply tragic, terrifying, sickening, empowering, and cathartic. I'm pretty sensitive to low-level misogyny and it's not that; that is not its purpose in any way.

It could be considered exploitative but I think that comes with the territory of the subject being examined (patriarchal Dark Age droit de seigneur religious hypocritical *beep*) I felt like it had to be exploitative to illustrate (haha) the reality of having one's body and consent grossly violated as a woman, which by definition is violent. It pushes boundaries, let's just say.

With that in mind: TRIGGER WARNINGS EVERYWHERE!!! You have been warned.

I was definitely triggered, hard. I cried for an hour afterward, but in a deeply cathartic, anguished, relieved-to-be-alive kind of way. I think because I empathized very personally with Jeanne's tragedy, I could imagine/remember how it felt to be her.

If I was primed to be offended, I would have started out absolutely disgusted and felt like I had to walk out on principle, possibly in tears, but I sat with the discomfort and, for me, it paid off grandly. Also, there were some really cute, humorous, almost/truly romantic? moments that eased the discomfort surprisingly well, considering what I had just seen.