I'm not sure how much it glorifies rape, per se, and there's also the question as to how "good" a character Eastwood's Stranger really is. Some interpretations of the film's ambiguous, possibly-supernatural story is that he's actually the Devil himself. It's certainly a plausible explanation. With the possible exception of the dwarf, there isn't a good, noble person in this whole film. It's a dark, angry, ugly film where everyone is guilty, everyone is complicit.
And yet, yeah, there's still that "no no no oh yes" trope in films. It's been done well, too! But boy what a slippery slope it is, as you say.
The biggest example (except that it might be a subversive take on the theme) is STRAW DOGS. That rape scene, more than any other part of that particularly nasty film, strongly polarized opinions. You'd have to see it to really get the idea, but whoo boy, it plays up that sort of thing from a... well, subversive is the word, and I can't quite tell if it's fucked-up in a good way or fucked-up in a bad way.
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Date: 2008-08-31 07:00 pm (UTC)And yet, yeah, there's still that "no no no oh yes" trope in films. It's been done well, too! But boy what a slippery slope it is, as you say.
The biggest example (except that it might be a subversive take on the theme) is STRAW DOGS. That rape scene, more than any other part of that particularly nasty film, strongly polarized opinions. You'd have to see it to really get the idea, but whoo boy, it plays up that sort of thing from a... well, subversive is the word, and I can't quite tell if it's fucked-up in a good way or fucked-up in a bad way.