Trigger warning: don’t watch this movie if you are sensitive to abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault. Or read the rest of this post.
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This was very hard to watch.
The film itself was very well done and the quality, the accuracy, and how raw they managed to let it be was amazing. And I have to applaud the performance of the leading actors, every character was extremely believable and realistic.
That being said, hyper realism was sort of an overlying motif for this entire film. It gets a little, *too real*
More real than most films, are willing to get close to or touch the boundary. This film literally puts you *in her shoes* In such a crystal clear way.
Because of that, it is far more painful to experience as a film and is like I said, difficult to endure it.
There were moments where I wanted to turn it off because it was just all I could handle. It got to be a little too much.
I could see this being something that if it were in theaters some people may walk out or become a little physically ill in their stomach, from watching this.
It’s difficult to stomach but I’ve never seen any film depict with such clarity and accuracy the experience of abduction and continual abuse in containment.
You are guided through all of the pain of the main character and all emotional experiences she has, you taste them too.
It was incredibly dark, and at times, like a horror movie. But, it was, horror of a different kind than, regular horror movies. It was horrifying trauma to watch someone experience.
Most movies just insinuate the sexual assault and things like that, they depict it almost from a third person perspective and you don’t actually see, the experience. It’s just, implied.
But this film does show the actual rape, repeatedly. I just had to say that to warn you is really grotesque and disgusting.
And the abuse she does experience from him, you see it from her perspective rather than third party. And it’s very, in your face. It can be quite unsettling getting yelled at.
There is a lot of blood curdling screams, sobs, and the real physical sounds of rape. there was nothing left to the imagination.
So I’m just, yeah. Surprised how; hard they went with that whole ‘raw and realistic’ portrayal.
Needless to say, I felt every bit of it and. I’m not sure if I really wanted to.
But because there is no film quite like it, I have to recommend it as they did a spectacular job with what they aimed to do.
Which was essentially, to tell her full story.
Not just tell it but, really tell it so you knew what she experienced and could understand.
This is a full 360 view insight into the life of traumatized individuals. And for that, I’m, glad that someone made this into art in such a way
because it’s a very difficult thing to express to others so they can really get it
but I think if you watch this, you’ll at least get it by like 10% as far as understanding what you feel and what’s it’s like
the actual experience in 100% detail I think is impossible to portray with film because there is psychological processes that only occur for the individual undergoing the trauma, which can’t be activated for the person simply viewing it in a two hour span.
But this is most certainly a very rich, vibrant, 10% which you will taste and feel in full sensation.
(this film is a true story, and they even chose to represent the real people with actors who do look like them.)
