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Rage
15:18 / 23.02.02
I think that this movie needs to be discussed here.

I walked out with a temporary "what the fuck," followed by a "that was great".

It sure made me feel good about myself. At least I don't have problems getting laid. Who am I to complain about getting hit on all the time when there are girls like Fat Girl who sing songs to themselves in pools?

Disturbing endings are good good good. "She said she wasn't raped" beats the school song on the bus in Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Go Fat Girl. What an interesting piece of material. Fucked up shit, man.
 
 
suds
15:28 / 23.02.02
(spoilers ahead)

"It sure made me feel good about myself. At least I don't have problems getting laid. Who am I to complain about getting hit on all the time when there are girls like Fat Girl who sing songs to themselves in pools?"

wha-a-a-a-t? maybe i'm misunderstanding you here: but are you saying that you compared yrslef with anais in the film and it made you feel *better* about yrself?
me, personally, i am pretty sick of the way overweight women are depicted in movies. they are seen as pathetic, sad characters (like in a ma soeur/ fat girl): or brimming with comedic promise, especially when in a bathing suit (shallow hal)
what i did like about a ma souer was that it seemed to be saying that rape can happen in different ways and rape isn't at all what society sees it as. the director of a ma souer also directed 'romance' which also had a terrifying rape scene.
both sisters are raped in the movie. one is raped in the woods by a murderer, and another is talked in to sex by an older man. because the elder sister says that she has not been raped, and her father insists that she has; it is more difficult for the audience to decide whether or not she was.
the ending pissed me off. they didn't have to die.
the police do not believe that anais has been raped at the end of the film. why is this? is this because rape victims are always seen as chaste, skinny, rich, white girls, who seem to have no sexuality?

i have more to say about this but my hands are getting tired.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:09 / 23.02.02
I'm pretty baffled as to what Rage is trying to say : is she being sarcastic? Is she being sincere? Is she kidding around?

Rage, would you mind clarifying what you were trying to say?
 
 
Rage
19:03 / 23.02.02
"I'm sooooo misunderstood."

I feel 14 again.

Yes, I'm saying that it made me feel better about myself, selfish at that might sound. I'm sometimes down on myself because I get uncomfortable people hitting on me, and here is this girl who doesn't have anyone hitting on her. All she wants is to be hit on, when I myself am utterly annoyed with people hitting on me. All she wants is to get laid, when I myself am utterly annoyed with guys trying to get some. I'm seen as My Body to a lot of people. I sometimes get down on myself because of these people. Anais wants to have someone hold her and love her. Fucking. That's what the asshole led her sister to believe love was. Fucking. What did Anais think love was? Did Anais want to be fucked?

quote:me, personally, i am pretty sick of the way overweight women are depicted in movies. they are seen as pathetic, sad characters (like in a ma soeur/ fat girl): or brimming with comedic promise, especially when in a bathing suit (shallow hal)

Every fat women is a different fat women. Fat women can be depicated millions of different ways, just like skinny women and smack addicted women.

This is like me saying that I'm pretty sick of the way smack addicted women are depicted in movies. I can name 5 different movies featuring 5 extremely different smack addicted women. The same goes for overweight women. If you're talking about the majority of overweight or smack addicted women movies characters, you're talking about a rough figure.

quote:what i did like about a ma souer was that it seemed to be saying that rape can happen in different ways and rape isn't at all what society sees it as.

This is also something that I liked. It raised a lot of questions about rape and what it really was. Was the older sister raped? What the younger one?

quote:both sisters are raped in the movie. one is raped in the woods by a murderer, and another is talked in to sex by an older man. because the elder sister says that she has not been raped, and her father insists that she has; it is more difficult for the audience to decide whether or not she was.

Lots of good questions. Did the older sister really want it? Did she provoke it? Did the younger sister want it? If she did, was she really raped? What is rape anyway?
 
  
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