The ending...
I dont want to watch this, can someone just tell me the ending? Did the victim(s) get justice? Did the assailant(s) get punished?
shareSort of. Someone snuck the whole video into the police station. In the video you see that she was being groped by Chris while the other guys watched. Then she looks at them and says,"you think I want to sleep with you? All if you? Well that's not what I want! No that's not what I want!" Then they all force her down on bed while she is screaming no, get off me, etc. She did a very believable job. While we never see the boys punished, it is implied they will be, but Sam feels like she still needs to do something. Police woman tells her to be "loud" with what ever she does. It end with a football game, and all the boys are out on bail until trail. You see Sam begin to walk around track during game while Frankie is in stands with her laptop, and we see her laptop is wired to football announcing system. Sam walks onto field, Frankie hits play, and the audio of the rape plays repeatedly over system, and now everyone knows the truth. Dad comes down and stands next to her, then her ex stands next to her, then her 2 girl friends from beginning, etc. The crowd slowly and silently all begin to stand up, team takes off helmets, except bad guys of course, and soon they are all standing in support of Sam. Basically that is how it ended.
shareTypical unrealistic Lifetime happy ending fluff...
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I thought it would've been more realistic if it just showed the team members playing the game and the investigator telling Sam "Sometimes not everyone gets justice. But it's important not to stop living and to try to spread awareness." It could show Sam looking at the Game
players defiantly. Fadeout.
The way they ended it was typical Lifetime "Girl power" cheese. Not very realistic. There would still be skeptics not on her side. This movie could've been so much better.
About the only thing I liked was the fact that Stats. at the end were not gender exclusive showing that anyone young old, male or female, can be a victim of rape.
Ummm it did ONLY tell the stats for women... 1 in every 5 are raped in the US alone, 1 in every 135 males are raped by a male (most typically during childhood) and the number of men raped by women is 1 in every 5,500.... I would say the biggest issue is men being rapists and women being victims, as well as boys and girls. Grown men are rarely raped.
shareExcept that those stats are complete hogwash, they reflect flawed and biased samples and they don't take into account unreported sexual assaults (especially for men). Learn to think for yourself, or at least to do independent research before you turn into another bleating social justice warrior.
shareI agree, but they can only use stats based on what's reported. There are thousands of crimes that go unreported. If crimes go unreported, how exactly are they to get accurate numbers? They can only go by what they're given.
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There was more. In a throwaway line of Sam's, we learned that some of the football players had taken two 14-year-old girls into a basement somewhere in the town. And the camera showed two very young girls standing to support Sam when the audio was playing.
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Neither fluff nor happy. The girl—and her father—have to live with that horrific trauma for the rest of their lives. After the broadcast of the graphic details at the football game, I had the feeling that it wasn't over; that, since the truth was out, the football players were going to be punished. Probably not thoroughly enough, but any punishment is better than none.
IMO, the ONLY viable punishment for rape is a round through the head.
At the end of the film, there was a website where one could go to help rape victims. Anyone remember the website?
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