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Only a female writer-director could get away with this !


During the all girl drunken party scene, the main character tells the 'funny' anecdote of how she was 'raped' in college (yeah, she laughs about it but what she describes is very close to rape) and then one of the women goes on to say that she has been masturbating to the rape scene of THE ACCUSED for years !!

But, eh, this was written by a woman so I guess in this case, it's OK to make fun of rape, right ?

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I didn't get that the lead character was actually raped, just that she got pregnant from a single sexual encounter. As for "The Accused" thing, it's a well known fact that women FANTASIZE about rape. The whole point of the movie though is how fantasy doesn't always go over so well in reality.

But are you offended because you felt it made light of rape or because women can get away with making light of rape? I might KIND OF agree with you on the second point just because I'm sick to death of all the pc bullsh!t surrounding movies in general.

And what I DID kind of admire is that this female director has a female lead who is not necessarily likeable or sympathetic. Male directors like Martin Scorsese do that all the time in movies like "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "Goodfellas", but it seems to be considered kind of "un-PC" for a female director to create a lead female character who is so potentially alienating.

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this was written by a woman so I guess in this case, it's OK to make fun of rape, right?


It's always ok to make fun of rape.

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That was just a joke--don't take it literally to mean that's what ALL women like. Also, some people joke about horrible things because sometimes that the only way they can handle or process something terrible that happened to them. OR the director probably just threw it out there for shock value (which sounds like that's more likely.)

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It wasn't supposed to be funny at all, even though she's laughing while she's telling it she starts crying after and it's part of a nervous breakdown in front of her friends. Note that she's not the one who calls it rape, her friend says it sounds like it is. And I think it's possible she didn't want to admit it was rape to herself. It obviously effected her deeply, she said she spent a year completely depressed and didn't want to go back to school after having the abortion because she couldn't face the guy who impregnated her.

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> It wasn't supposed to be funny at all,

Bingo.

Judging by the comments on IMDB for this movie a lot of people saw a very different movie than I did. It is actually kind of disturbing that someone could have seen that particular scene and thought anything about it was meant to be a joke.

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She wasn't raped, unless I missed something major. She explicitly said it wasn't a rape story.

Amy: I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!

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Add that to the abortion celebration scene.

Who had unprotected sex and got rid of something that turns into a human..

High 5's.

Pretty scary mentality

One lady asks imagine meeting your aborted child.

Imagine one day women are confronted by the ghosts of their abortions showing them what they could have been

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I never get that about abortion. Women high giving and celebrating the right to terminate a life when there was to avoid creating it in the first place.

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Even though it was only 10 years ago it was a different time. You could not get away with that now regardless of gender.

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