In 1983 a woman was gang-raped on a pool table in New Bedford, Massachusetts, while onlookers cheered. The film is based on a true story, but with a somewhat different outcome. With the help of a determined prosecution lawyer and a decent man who was in the bar and decides to give evidence, the men who cheered the rapists on are convicted amid dramatic courtroom scenes.
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Foster's character Sarah is a party animal who dirty dances with a man in a bar and is raped by him and two others over a pinball machine in full view of their cheering mates. Why then, do I still believe both versions of ISOYG to be more feminist – albeit in a purely accidental way – than The Accused, the much-lauded 1988 film starring Jodie Foster?įeminists hailed The Accused, partly because the story served to debunk a number of pernicious rape myths. It is nothing if not an exploitation movie. One has his penis hacked off and bleeds to death, another is garrotted, and so on. Local men – unappealing rednecks – spy on her while she sunbathes in a tiny bikini, before capturing, humiliating and raping her over and over again.Įventually Jennifer recovers, tracks the rapists down one-by-one and exacts the most delicious revenge on them. It shows, in detail and at length, the gang rape of Jennifer, a sexually confident young woman from New York City who moves to the country to live in an isolated log cabin while writing a novel.