FILMS AND RAPE
Bravo to Turan. Having seen a preview of the new Kathryn Bigelow film “Strange Days,” I was shocked and horrified by the film’s “high tech” rape scene. Its screenwriters must think themselves very ingenious to have created the idea of compounding a woman’s terror by forcing her to experience her attack through the eyes of her rapist. Shame on Bigelow for allowing this sickening and debasing scene into her film. One would have hoped and perhaps even expected that a woman would show a modicum of sense and sensitivity toward the issue of rape.
Sadly, it doesn’t seem to matter if a man or woman is at the helm of a production--”rape chic” has become a genderless crime.
SARAH K. FOSS
Santa Monica
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