I Spit On Your Grave
I talked about this a bit in my discussion post, but I would like to go a bit more in depth here. When first viewing I Spit On Your Grave, I definitely experienced some aspects of catharsis in seeing her take down all of the Disgusting men who raped her, but it still felt like something was missing when the film ended. I think this could be due to something that Creed discusses in her book. Creed writes, "It is significant that the three rape scenes in the first half of I Spit On Your Grave are filmed in a completely different way from the revenge scenes of the second half. Whereas woman-as-victim is represented as an abject thing, man-as-victim is not similarly degraded and humiliated" (Creed 130). Creed goes on to explain how the woman is the "complete and total victim" of the film. (Creed 130 again lol). Jennifer's general harassment and rape take up such a large portion of this film while the murders of the men are spread out and take much less time. I remem...
