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Release Date: 18 May, 1999 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.96 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: |
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Ignore Review by Peter
This is a five star film with brutal honesty and is the product of the director's real life encounter with a rape victim. Other open minded reviewers have done this film justice, I just wanted to point out a few things about the small minded review put foward by PETER below:
1. The scenes are extended to make the audience feel as though they have gone through an ordeal and to fully express the pain and horror of the crime! But you seem to think a PG rated sequence lasting 10 seconds be more honest?!
2. This movie deserves royal DVD treatment more so than any of todays mainstream garbage as it clearly makes more of an impact than any major studio's tame market friendly drivel which is put out as modern horror. Many companies such as Anchor Bay, Blue Underground, Shriek Show ect have made it their buiness to put uncut lavishly produced DVD's of films like this out as there is a gap in the current market that can only be filled by classic genre films. Don't belive me? They have remade Texas Cahinsaw Massacre!
3. I'd like to know how you can critize the intelligence of other reviewers when in another review you gave a CD by boyband FIVE 4 stars?! There is a lot of sybolism in this film and if it went over your head then no one else is to blame but yourself! You show your true intelligence by quoting a previous review which is clearly written by another small minded reviewer who hates the film and is satirical mocking the films fans as an example of a 5 star reviewer?! Try reading that review again and this time you might get that they are against it too! Unfamiliar with the concept of satire are you, Peter?
4. As an international customer I found your xenophobia (get out the dictionary Peter) quite distasteful to say the least. If you don't like foreign film directors then stick with Titanic and Pearl Habour and write reviews on how brilliant and important those films are and leave the genre films to true genre fans!!!
I just hope that I've helped any one else who is reading these reviews and is deciding on whether or not to give this contraversial film a chance. Ignore condesending reviews like Peter's and see for yourself. This film is definitely not for everyone and I am sure that there will be intelligence people who won't like it due to it's confronting nature. It's best that you take a look for yourself, make up your own mind and please do not let the ideals of a very vocal and dim witted group who have continued to persecute this film from it's initial release to this day lead you to dismiss the other level to this film beyond it's harshness.
Jennifer's Day
Anytime I see a movie that has been "banned" and dubbed "the most controversial movie of all time," I'm generally not pleased. Apparently that kind of "reputation" sets up too many expectations for me. This was not entirely the case when seeing I Spit On Your Grave, however. I did have those kind of expectations set up, but the film did what it was supposed to -- evoke emotions.
I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) is the tragic story of Jennifer Hill (Camille Keaton). A young attractive writer from New York, Jennifer moves to a small town out in the middle of nowhere to work on her first novel. We quickly learn that this small town is something out of Deliverance country with Deliverance-type residents -- in particular, four men, all of whom work at the general store/gas station. Three of them are as mean as Hell and the other, Matthew (Richard Pace), is "slow," going along with whatever his friends do.
Jennifer pulls in to fill up for the first time, the boys see her, and decide to go to her house across the lake and rape her. It may seem as if I'm moving too fast or skipping details, but really I'm not -- that just about sums it up. We soon learn that the initial reason behind committing these rapes is to "make Matthew a man." That reason quickly becomes secondary, as the men turn into utter monsters, losing any sense of "right" they may have ever had. The rape scenes are quite graphic -- they leave the viewer with an acute sense of emptiness and despair -- Jennifer crawls nude trying to escape, having no idea how to. The men catch up with her and continue to rape her. This goes on for 30 minutes, if not longer.
Physically and emotionally shaken, Jennifer begins to plot revenge and viewers begin to root for her as we see her deserving revenge. Once Jennifer comes into contact with each of the four men, she brutally kills them, each in a different and very "creative" way.
One problem I had with this film overall deals with believability -- would the rapists have killed Jennifer having so many reasons and opportunities to do so? For example, in one scene, Jennifer has the ringleader at gunpoint, but hands her gun over to him (I assume this was all part of her plan). Would the rapist, who just begged the woman he raped for his life, have thrown the gun away as he did? It may just be that I'm forgetting that the rapists in this film are stupid and logic doesn't apply to them.
One aspect of the film that makes it especially eerie and unusual is the total lack of any musical score. Perhaps the only music throughout the film is Jennifer's classical music, which she listens to while killing one of the men. This lack of score oddly makes the viewer feel like an invisible observer -- there's nothing to distract us away from the woods, from the rapes, and from the eventual gore.
Camille Keaton is excellent as Jennifer Hill. She very accurately portrays Jennifer's transformations from sane writer to pitiful victim, from vengeful killer to satisfied woman. If you can look at the graphic nature of the rape scenes as purposeful, in that we as viewers can better understand why Jennifer does what she does, see this movie. Otherwise, you might just regret it. Rating: 3 / 4(...)
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