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Originally Posted by GoChiefs
You didn't answer my question.
Why does anyone need to see a 12-year old getting raped?
I'm guessing no one here WANTS to see that, but obviously there's some NEED to see it, since the film is being made.
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I meant to imply that the need is the same for all of these questions.
1. It's essential to the plot of the movie. In the story being told, the girl gets kidnapped and raped. She finds comfort in Elvis records to help her make it through a terrible ordeal. Perhaps she doesn't make it through. Sadly, many real children don't.
2. Film is a visual medium. There are ways of shooting around certain things to protect the mental well being of the child, but not showing what happens to her is like reading a book about Dinosaurs where the words read, "This is the part about Dinosaurs. I won't describe them, but trust me, they're cool..."
3. The film is from HER perspective. It's about HER struggle. If we don't see her plight, we don't empathize as much as we should.
4. Film is the most powerful of media to bring about social change. The nazis learned to use film as propoganda FOR hateful deeds, and got a whole country to go along with them. It wasn't all documentary stuff either. They sanctioned movies. Goebbels actually hired directors and was in charge of making sure pro German films coincided with certain political movements of the nazi party. They invented German film awards and bestowed them as military honors. Showing atrocities on film has often had the same effect for what most people consider to be positive social change. Obviously, some is documentary: kent state, Vietnam, etc... But there are countless films that have helped to further our enlightenment of other people, whether they be a minority, homosexual, or handicapped, or have brought our awareness of a certain problem to a higher, more enlightened level.