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Question about the rape scene?

posted 16 years ago by thrashmaniac87
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Why the hell would that girl get him food after he raped her?

[–] jdbmjf 16 years ago

Because in her tribe the men took their women, or claimed them by raping them, and so to her he is like any man in her tribe, and she brings him food, because she now has a man and needs to look after him.
It sounds brutal but its a common practise still in many native tribes, and the director Deodato, a genius, did it for realism and filmed the rape scene in a realistic way, unlike in some other exploitative cannibai films like Ferox etc.

[–] allseeing 16 years ago

No...
Watching that scene now.

It's just pure exploitative crap.

[–] mv5 11 years ago

I second this

[–] bbsstfu 15 years ago

"Why the hell would that girl get him food after he raped her?"

for teh lulz

[–] drxcreatures 13 years ago

I felt pretty bad for her. It's awful what her own tribe did to her, as if she left on purpose. I cannot believe I saw this movie, when I was little. Videos were scarce and I did not know what I was about to watch. LOL

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[–] thesiouxfallskid 13 years ago

Important to consider that rape may be acceptable in some primitive societies even by women, just like slavery. By acceptable, not that they like it, but it may be the only way they know. Often people take values in their own society and apply them to others. By way of example I once saw a western from an Islamic country set in the American southwest. The hero's wife was raped as he was forced to watch. So at his first opportunity he very reluctantly puts a bullet in his wife's head and then takes revenge, which includes raping and killing the bad guy's two daughters, whose only "guilt" was being the bad guy's children.

[–] TheMachinistSleeps 8 years ago

I felt pretty bad for her. It's awful what her own tribe did to her, as if she left on purpose.

I know this post is old, but anyway... that wasn't her tribe that killed her in the end. That was a cannibal tribe that lived nearby. At one point the two main guys are talking and one says that she is leading them in the wrong direction because she's scared and knows the cannibals live between them and the airfield.

[–] timlin-4 11 years ago

She had already kind of chosen him. She was waiting for him to make a move, and women like a guy who can take charge. Afterwards she is his wife