I went to see "Straw Dogs" last night, and while I have been wanting to see this show for several reasons, the two main reasons were because Alexander Skarsgard (Erick Northman from True Blood) is in it and it looked like a good show.
While I will admit, I have never looked up reviews or a full description on a movie... You can bet your sweet ass I will from now on!
I had no idea of what this WHOLE shows premise was about... This show is about a Country girl (Amy) who made it in Hollywood and returns home to the Country to fix up her fathers home that was effected by a tornado. She returns with her new husband and while in town they run into her old high school boyfriend (Charlie) who clearly isn't over her aka fucking delusional sociopath! As the movie goes on, her new husband (David) hires her old boyfriend and his crew (4 other rednecks) to fix the barn roof, he acts all sweet and respectful with that hint of "I have big plans for you" as a sour undertone!
Long story short, all of the boys from Charlie's crew trick the new husband into going hunting, while David is out hunting, Charlie goes back to the house to see Amy, at which time he rapes her. Now if this wasn't bad enough, she refuses to look at him when the "deed is done" which triggers a nerve in Charlie, which in turn allows him to allow the other 4 guys of his crew come in and rape her as well, while he watches.
Anyone who knows me, knows that on September 10, 2009 I was raped by my boyfriend in my home. Although my rape was not as violent (like the scene in this movie), it felt the same! No control, powerless, shocked, scared, confused, violated, angry and vulnerable to name a few feelings! Needless to say, I could not watch the scene and hearing it was just as tough. What I did see took me back to my rape, and while I thought I had it safely tucked back and filed away in my head... Not so much! As the show continues, Amy and David go to the local high school football game where every time a player is hit in the game, she has a flashback of the rapes, which again, I cannot watch and also takes me back to my rape.
While this show was stupid and very slow before the rape scene, it only got worse! I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would put shit like that in a movie? I would really like to know why a writer of a movie cannot write without this type of shit in it? It all seems rather pointless to me? Not only is it sick, in my opinion it plants "seeds" in peoples minds!
True, if one has this type of behavior in them they will do it with or without encouragement, but I do believe that there are people out there who watch movies which "trigger" a thought or an "it's a cool thing" attitude.
Same can be argued for scenes of murder, violence or whatever and though I know that it's "just a movie" or "entertainment", in my opinion, a rape scene can go without being in a movie, and if one feels it necessary to put it in said movie, don't show the damn thing! Just the "implication" it's going to happen or did happen is enough to get your mind in the plot of the show, they call it an imagination for a reason!
Yes this struck a nerve with me because I lived it with a sociopath of my own, but even if I had never had an experience like that, I still would not agree for shit like this to be in a movie, book or on TV, outside of the fact that it is morally wrong, it still demoralizes women and I still believe that it plants seeds in the minds of people where it originally wasn't there.
I am now left with the scenes of my rape playing over and over in my head, when I went through months and months of therapy to put it behind me! Thanks for the digression, Straw Dogs!
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