graphic on screen torture of a woman is not provocative not metaphorical not deep women have made art and film about pain and sacrifice without falling back on a gross-out contest its not entertaining to see that its not compelling its actually one of the most tired things present in film today
Straight male directors love depicting the brutalization of women because they know how profound female suffering is and want to capitalize on it but their innate lack of empathy means the only way they can think to access that pain is thru graphic depictions of feminine objectification and dehumanization. They enact the same kinds of gendered violence they practice in varying degrees every day and fantasize about in private and they call it thoughtful, they call it beautiful. And everyone repeats, “he is thoughtful; she is beautiful.” He doesn’t care to know her, just to indulge himself through her. Over and over again
Honestly this might be a stretch but imo a lot of those male directors that go to those lengths to depict brutal violence and torture on women probably have fantasized aboit doing that at one point and it just makes me shudder
that’s not a stretch at all. it’s not farfetched, it’s a red flag.
medranochav 