MovieChat Forums > Perdita Durango (1997) Discussion > I wish I never saw it...

I wish I never saw it...

posted 16 years ago by Blood_Washed_Mongoose
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Why? MESSED UP SEX SCENES, that's what. Two graphic RAPE scenes, and one with a deliberately grotesque fat woman. But it's the rape scenes that're really disturbing. Why would you make a movie about this?

I saw this when I was 15, and I'm 24 now but I still can't get the images out of my head. If I met the director, I'd slap him in the face.

The whole movie's screwed up, twisted, and depraved for no good reason. I turned it off near the end - why would I want to watch something like this?

[–] Breseis 16 years ago

Perhaps you shouldn't have watched a movie like this when you where 15 in the first place.....
Anyways.

She's been everybody else's girl. Maybe one day she'll be her own.

[–] cartman_10 13 years ago

I'm glad I wasn't such a pussy when I saw it like the OP...

[–] chaosrampant 16 years ago

Where does personal responsibility kick in? It's your own damn fault for watching it in the first place, when you were so young. There's nothing wrong with rape and violence in movies. It's all fictional.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

[–] shadowangel-599-184270 11 years ago

Prude People (i guess the OP is american? they are the prudest people in the world, no wonder this movie was a failure in that redneck country) and their fear of everything related Sex. Always funny to see them cry and complain :D

[–] Burntout 11 years ago

Thanks for the blanket statement for all of us in the "prude" U.S. It's a stereotype that is well-deserved at times but the redneck culture snipe was an even lower blow.

I know people who will not watch movies that depict graphic rape scenes in it for moral reasons (who likes rape outside of rapists or teenage kids who haven't gotten laid yet and buy into the "rape culture"?) but I'm sure a few would watch this on my word that the rape scenes were somewhat crucial in the overall story arc in Bardem's and Perez's relationship after this occurred. The rape scenes were not necessary but they were not placed in there with no context outside of shocking the audience; it helped move a somewhat messy plot further down the rabbit hole by placing distrust between our two main characters.