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Rape scene! What rape scene?


I concur with mahou_fancy_lala, who complained about exactly the same thing on another thread. The supposed rape scene involving Chloë Moretz and Eddie Redmayne is Much Ado About Nothing.
all they show is the two characters on a country road in the middle of the night, when suddenly Eddie chases Chloë into a grove of fruit trees. After that the scene changes to her in some vacation cabin tied to a bed, and the Eddie character is apologizing to her, claiming he won't do whatever he did to her ever again.
The problem is, he doesn't say exactly what he is apologizing for. Is it, tying her to the bed? Cutting off all her hair and dying what was left black? Or chasing her into the Grove the night before? the audience is left guessing.
As to whether Eddie actually raped Chloë, in that grove, or anyplace else for that matter, the audience simply has no hard proof that such a thing has happened.
Now the scene where Chloë is attacked in the bathroom by the pool shark is far more serious and explicit. Indeed, the way Chloë throws her entire 108 pound body into the fight against this man, who is clearly trying to sexually assaulted her, is so intense you're not sure if she is going to make it out of that scene in one piece.

post script:
for those not familiar with Chloë's screen credits you should check out "Texas Killing Fields"; a movie she made the same year as "Hick".
in that film, she is raped, and there is no guessing about it either. while the film doesn't show the actual rape, it did show the aftermath and it was unpleasant.
in the film, which is about a series of unsolved murders taking place in a small Texas town, we see Chloë standing in the aisle of a convenience store when suddenly someone just out of view, grabs her and pulls her away.
when she is reported missing, Sam Worthington, who is playing a local cop, uses a bloodhound to trace her to a wilderness area where other murder victims were found.
first he finds her bloody underwear,then he finds her tied to a tree, nearly naked and half dead. Chloë is covered with bruises and cigarette burns,where she was not only raped but also tortured.
I'm not gonna say who the killer is, you just have to watch the film for yourself.


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It's pretty clear that he's apologizing for the rape that happened in the field. Which was not explicitly shown but the camera lingering on the field while you heard Moretz' voice listing things you find in a hardware store in a clearly upset manner (close your eyes and think of England type thing) made it hard to misinterpret.

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I agree. I understood that he raped her and that was what he was apologing for in the cabin later. All in all not a comfortable film to watch.

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He never raped her. He was apologising for tying her up. There was no rape scene because there was no rape.

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The line he says is: "What happened back there, that wasn't right. See, that wasn't right and I know it. Now, I promise as God is my witness that that will never happen again."
Back there = in the field.

Later, he says, unrelated, "I will never tie you up again. Except when I'm gone."
He never apologizes for tying her up. He actually says he's going to tie her up again (and in fact, he does, since Glenda finds her tied up later).

Also, during the field scene, Luli recites to himself, in a clearly distressed voice, a list of "things that you find in a hardware store". Her voice almost breaks in tears at R (= Rape). Then she ends the list with "S, Soap", another pretty on the nose reference to what just happened.

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It is hard to claim that the latter is unrelated. He starts off saying, "I will never do that again, that was wrong" goes straight to "I will never tie you up again" again states eeh generic "I will never do that again" and finishes with a "I will never tie you up again. Except when I'm gone." It is very clear that many times when he used the generic, he meant tie her up, which implies that that might be the meaning of the other generic apologies.

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In the book, she was raped.


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Of course he raped her in that field. I find it hard to believe that so many people are questioning that... it was very obvious.

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Her narration of going through the alphabet-a little jumbled even- was her trying to put different thoughts in her head than what was happening. She was raped in that field and tried her best to get her mind away from what was happening. It is pretty obvious.

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I don't think that's clear at all. I took the scene to say he knocked her unconscious to take her to the hotel and tie her up. You can imagine a rape if you want, but I don't think that's certain.

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no rape. how could she not outrun that gimp?

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They show him tackling her to the ground before they disappear behind the brush.
So we KNOW he caught her.

She's tied and dyed in the cabin.
So we KNOW he caught her.

While the camera pans out on the field, we hear her "go to her happy place" and then he apologizes for "it".
So we are 99.9% sure he raped her.

There's always that .1% chance he was just giving her a nuggie.

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Thanks for having a well-functioning brain...it is apparent that not all on here do.

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I guess you wanted to see penetration?

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Right? WTF is wrong with some people?!

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