Very mild spoilers ahead.
I'm not going to reiterate the plot here, plenty of other reviewers on here have described it far better than I could.
I just don't think this film worked, introducing a supernatural element into it worked against any message it might have been trying to impart to it's audience about sexual assault and the treatment of women after the fact.
If a woman says she's been assaulted by an actual monster of course people are going to be skeptical. Let's be honest, even with the best intentions in the world, at best the police and your friends are going to think you're confused, at worst that you're lying your arse off or mad as a lorry. Making the attacker supernatural just makes the disbelief a legitimate response to the horror the victim went through.
If it was an actual real man it would've worked better. Then the disbelief would be unjust, the use of her past against her unfair and her behavior that night irrelevant.
Anyway, written by lesbians, performed by lesbians and directed, presumably, by a lesbian. Make of that what you will. The patriarchy remains untoppled.
I'm not going to reiterate the plot here, plenty of other reviewers on here have described it far better than I could.
I just don't think this film worked, introducing a supernatural element into it worked against any message it might have been trying to impart to it's audience about sexual assault and the treatment of women after the fact.
If a woman says she's been assaulted by an actual monster of course people are going to be skeptical. Let's be honest, even with the best intentions in the world, at best the police and your friends are going to think you're confused, at worst that you're lying your arse off or mad as a lorry. Making the attacker supernatural just makes the disbelief a legitimate response to the horror the victim went through.
If it was an actual real man it would've worked better. Then the disbelief would be unjust, the use of her past against her unfair and her behavior that night irrelevant.
Anyway, written by lesbians, performed by lesbians and directed, presumably, by a lesbian. Make of that what you will. The patriarchy remains untoppled.