Sympathy for the Rapist??? (Spoilers)

In "A Clockwork Orange" by Stanley Kubrick, we WERE actually meant to feel sympathy for the lead antagonist who is a rapist AND a murderer. And, apart from that experiment which he endured, after God knows how many other rapes and murders he committed, he got rather lightly off - at least compared to the character in here, of whom Banderas' character (actor who, by the way, played himself a rapist in ANOTHER Pedro Almodovar film - "Matador" (1986) 25 years prior to that), who practically was, as a result, transferred into a woman himself, and Banderas even did that to an extent to remind him also of his dead lover.

By the way, as much as I do agree that rape is horrible and the people who perpetrate this should be dealt with appropriately, in the context of this film, I was wondering - given just how CLEVER Antonio Banderas' character is and what wonders he was capable of performing with his surgery, just out of curiosity, did he ever consider to himself creating and designing medicine for rape victims, including the kind that can heal both physical and at least SOME of the emotional wounds?

And even if not, do you think that when he captured him, it would have been interesting if Vicente asked him something to the extent of - "OK, I did wrong", maybe even talk about how "he didn't mean to do it etc" and then say something like "Come on Dr, if you're a genius as such, why not create medicine that heals the wounds of rape victims and help your daughter, torturing me like that alone won't solve anything" etc.

And maybe Banderas' character would've said something like "No, there is no medicine for stuff like that. Just like there is no magic stick to permanently get rid of scum like you. What do you think this is, a *beep* fairytale you bastard? I already killed a rapist in my life once. Ain't gonna have no more mercy on your kind of sick mugs. You think you have the right to take what's not yours and cause people suffering, turn the act of pleasure into pain, like that and get off on it? Shut the *beep* up immediately or I will mess you up in so many ways you'll never dream of." Etc.

The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!

I have also noticed that in many reviews, people were complaining that the doctor even went as far as to "fall in love" with Vicente, the guy who apparently raped and caused the suicide of his daughter, but I think in actuality, what I believe the movie was trying to say that the doctor wasn't totally right in doing what he did either and that this type of vengeance in itself not exactly a good act, the "falling in love" part was almost like an injustice-like take on the attempted revenge for rape in Gaspar Noe's "Irreversible" (2002) - only there, it was simply the case of a wrong guy getting killed and the real perpetrator getting away, so there was no happy ending.

The fact that at the end of this film, the doctor Roberto himself was killed kinda also shows how he went a little over the top and crazy himself in exacting vengeance.

By the way, I don't mean to sound gruesome or mysoginistic myself but I was kind of wondering.

What would Roberto do if a woman actually raped, say, his son, and it caused the son either to suffer or commit suicide, would he go as far as to exact an act of torturous revenge in that case like he did with the male perpetrator here or would he have mercy and say, give her a painless death whilst thinking something along the lines of "Yeah, it is also bad the other way round, but as a man I have my dignity. Just like Leon did in that 1994 Luc Besson movie where he said no women no kids".

The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!

So every time you engage in intimacy with your wife for example, you must ask for an explicit "yes" confirmation, otherwise it's considered rape? That can't be right...

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