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What would you say is worse?


To say attack and kill the rapists or to forgive them and let them go?

I'm aware of course they should be in prison for what they did and this is how it should be.

But out of those two scenarios, which would be worse?

Cheers.

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I hate that he found religion and let them go. He should have wasted them.

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Hahaha, lol, but many found this an interesting and respectable twist at least on a typical and familiar formula.

By the way, in his other film, Abel Ferrara's "Ms. 45" (aka "Angel of Vengeance") (1981), the woman, played by the late actress Zoe "Tamerlis" Lund, who also co-scripted this film and had a small part in it, not only killed at least one of the men who also violated her but she went even further than that, taking on the male gender in general and started seeing almost all men as evil scum.

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Yes, I know it was good for the movie. I also know I wouldn't be so noble...

I saw Ms. 45 quite a while ago. I might rewatch it some time soon.

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His (Harvey Keitel's) character also at one point commits an offensive act of a sexual nature/verbal abuse himself in this film, which sort of says he isn't all that much better than those two young men who violated that nun in this movie.

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True. But doesn't he evolve by the end? He does terrible things through most of the movie, hence the title. If he can forgive the rapists and put them on a bus to somewhere else, can the audience forgive him for what he's done up to that point?

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Out of those scenarios, killing them is worse than letting them go.

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