The hate campaign against her movie comes days after police nabbed two youngsters for sending obscene messages to the actor on social media. While one of the two men (Printo) got bail, the other (Rojan) who had sent rape threats has been rejected bail.
Tamil Actress Rape Scene Target
My intention was never to target India alone. I am pained that I am accused of targeting India whereas I wanted to showcase the collective will of Indians who poured out on the streets spontaneously and created an example for the rest of the world to emulate. It was not the rape but the phenomenal response to the rape that made me take up the issue.
\"I think that's what disturbs me the most is this scene was purposely put there to elicit humor,\" Jennifer Storm, a rape survivor and educator in Harrisburg, Pa., told ABCNews.com. \"Obviously, everyone is pushing the limit, but it's even more appalling now that rape is a joke.\"
She believes the film will make murkier what is already considered a gray area -- date rape. Even The New York Times, in its profile of the film's writer and director Jody Hill, does not the call the scene rape, writing, \"Before the scene is over, she indicates that she had given her consent.\"
\"The positive thing is the film has created a flashpoint around which people are discussing all the confusion,\" said Martin, the feminist writer and author of \"Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters.\" \"As much as I wish the scene didn't exist, I think it's clear both men and women are confused. And it's made more confusing by alcohol and the contemporary college scene that is Seth Rogen's target market.
The sense you get watching Coven is that its creators intended very much to shock. The problem is that its predictability doesn't leave a lot of room for that (warning: spoilers ahead). It's more or less expected that the men, even those of the cloth, will be aroused by the idea of attractive young women involved in sexual, albeit satanic, rituals. When the captured girls simulate being possessed, their contortionist moves, wagging tongues, guttural chants, and wild dances are curious but not frightening -- precisely because we believe they're acting. Judging by the final scene (think Thelma & Louise circa 1609), the director seems to want to leave us with a small doubt about whether the women actually hold secret powers. This is less successful than what the film does aptly convey, which is the unjust victimizations of brutal, sadistic witch hunts. Strangely, though, the film teeters on the edge of falling into its own trap -- and undermining its intended feminist messages -- by offering up the actresses' youth and beauty in its own nearly exploitative way. A naked-from-behind bath scene wasn't entirely necessary, nor were repeated female references to large phalluses, nor a cringe-worthy line about Lucifer using charming young women "who have just left childhood behind" as bait for men.
One of the past month's events was a terrifying online harassment campaign targeting the investigative journalist Rana Ayyub, which included calls for her to be gang-raped and the posting of porn videos with her head digitally superimposed over the heads of the actresses. 2ff7e9595c
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