There are many ways to rewrite this tripe to make it more thought provoking, less insulting, more empowering, less plain old bad...sadly, they chose none of them.
The writer/director said in an interview that one of the things he wanted to do was show an older woman as a person who could be attractive and alive and all that. If anything, I'm now even more disturbed. I was already squeamish because the juxtaposition of Cancer Man saying that rape wasn't part of the original plan and MS's line, "you are so beautiful," to the lifeless body just before raping her made me squirm that the message here was that rape was a crime of desire. This makes me think that maybe this message wasn't simply accidental but really is a case of Not Getting It. Showing an older person as desirable involves more than hiring a pretty actress who plays Victim so well. If THAT was supposed to be empowering to older women, well, just YUCK.
I really, really hate that entire aspect of Lifetime and its Victim view of women.
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Date: 2007-04-10 07:20 pm (UTC)The writer/director said in an interview that one of the things he wanted to do was show an older woman as a person who could be attractive and alive and all that.
If anything, I'm now even more disturbed. I was already squeamish because the juxtaposition of Cancer Man saying that rape wasn't part of the original plan and MS's line, "you are so beautiful," to the lifeless body just before raping her made me squirm that the message here was that rape was a crime of desire. This makes me think that maybe this message wasn't simply accidental but really is a case of Not Getting It. Showing an older person as desirable involves more than hiring a pretty actress who plays Victim so well. If THAT was supposed to be empowering to older women, well, just YUCK.
I really, really hate that entire aspect of Lifetime and its Victim view of women.