Films With Rape Scenes

[pengaleng]

phwoooarh!! I love a good rape scene!!

 

[Agent Sparrow]

One of the more disturbing things about the Sport is how the stories that aren't about Elvis being found on the moon are excessive reportage on sex crimes. Deeply dodgy editorial policy imho.

wrt sexualised rape scenes, I can't recall any. I just find it odd that torture porn gets a green light from the censors but rape porn is actually illegal (that act wrt simulated sexual violence in pr0n did pass, didn't it?)

A fairly weird bit of societal schizophrenia.

I also think murder can be glamourised. Dexter gets top ratings, and despite the disclaimer aspect of him only murdering serial killers, it's clear that murder sells. In fiction or reportage.

A few points. I guess despite the sexual revolution, there are still a lot of prudey attitudes about sex in our society. Note that I am not saying that rape is sex, not at all. But in answer to what you've just said, I wonder if that might be implicated in what you've observed.

On a similar note, given that whilst things are improving, sexual inequality still exists. I wonder whether that causes more anxiety about certificating anything that explicitly appears to reinforce that inequality in such a violent way. Whilst most murderers in films are male, I guess their victims are often more male or female. Of course there is male rape, and Pulp Fiction is one film that shows that. But IME, there are not a lot of films about male rape because it's still pretty unrecognised/taboo.

One more thing, and admittedly I am speaking as a woman here; I wonder if rape scenes cause more empathy and even uncomfortable identification with the victim than murder scenes. Murder in films seems a bit more distant somehow, at least IMPE.

 

[DotCommunist]

@sparrow

You also have to wonder how much the censors worry about people enjoying a rape scene, whereas with a murder scene the lines are a little clearer. Although I know a welshman who has been badly stabbed who turns his head away when people get knifed in films. There's probably a decent essay to be had about this, for anyone who can be arsed/is studying film.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Good point DC. I guess that could also tie in a little bit with what I said about sexual inequality.

One thing that does bug me is the joke references to gay rape that sometimes make it into films. I like Mall Rats, but I am disappointed by that joke at the end.

 

[machine cat]

phwoooarh!! I love a good rape scene!!

 

[May Kasahara]

The original Cook n' Moore 'Bedazzled' had a policeman in it who was obsessed with the crime of rape, but insisted it was the girl's fault 99% of the time. That was supposed to be funny though.

Is there? I don't remember this at all. It has been ages since I saw Bedazzled though.

 

[wiskey]

I haven't watched masses of bollywood films but a lot of the ones I have seen have had rape scenes.

I can't think I've seen any of the other ones on this thread apart from strawdogs and that whole film creeped me out.

 

[Vider]

Why the fuck post this thread? What are you having a wank by the computer? Your OP makes you seem like you do like rape scenes, and wanna talk to other folk about them and perhaps find some you've missed. Fucken perv.

Is that a wind up?

 

[Vider]

There is this french film with a mad 'character' who's really excentric (And, it turns out, evil). Rapes a women on a table. Probably the most grotesque piece of cinema I have ever seen. I had to look away.

 

[Vider]

I've always found rape scenes really uncomfortable to watch, but the only one that has stopped me watching a film was the one in Man Bites Dog (I think that's the correct name - it's the fictional documentary about a serial killer). It was pretty brutal up until that point, but the person who I was watching it with and I just had to turn off at that point.

I think rape scenes can be far worse than murders, because murders in films tend to be quicker. A protracted, brutal murder scene might be a better comparison.

that's the one i think i watched (see above).

 

[asbestos]

One of the more disturbing things about the Sport is how the stories that aren't about Elvis being found on the moon are excessive reportage on sex crimes. Deeply dodgy editorial policy imho.

wrt sexualised rape scenes, I can't recall any. I just find it odd that torture porn gets a green light from the censors but rape porn is actually illegal (that act wrt simulated sexual violence in pr0n did pass, didn't it?)

A fairly weird bit of societal schizophrenia.

I also think murder can be glamourised. Dexter gets top ratings, and despite the disclaimer aspect of him only murdering serial killers, it's clear that murder sells. In fiction or reportage.

Silence of the Lambs gets shown as the christmas movie, yet Henry - Portrait of a Serial Killer gets banned.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Hitchcock gives us Sean Connery raping Tippi Hedren in Marnie: