I’ve seen the last part of this movie before on television but I’d never seen the whole thing. We hired it on the weekend along with some other movies so we thought we’d better watch it last night before we have to take it back on Friday.
I knew the basis of the movie, Karen McCann (Sally Field) wants revenge for the rape and murder of her daughter, but somehow I just wasn’t prepared for that scene. Karen was talking on the phone to her daughter Julie when Julie opens the door to her death and Karen has to listen on the phone while it happens, trying desperately to get help to her home. I had to pause the movie while I gagged and cried and wanted to vomit. Way to lose your appetite! I sure didn’t need seconds of dinner after that. I recovered pretty quickly but it was definitely the most physical reaction I’ve ever had to a movie. It wasn’t even that graphic of a scene, it didn’t show very much explicitly, but things were being knocked around the room and the girl was crying and screaming.
I know it’s only a movie but the truth of the matter is that these things happen far too often in real life. It’s something that I just can’t abide, sometimes I cry if I read news articles of people having been raped. There was even that child thrown down and raped on the sidewalk at the park near her home, it was in full view of everyone. I have the greatest respect for women that don’t end up driveling messes after having things like that done to them. I would just want to curl up and die. Despite that I don’t think I could live with that I think it’s definitely worse for a rapist to kill his victims, not only does he take away innocence, security, trust, but he takes their life too.
Ugh, this world can be nasty. I’m glad I’ve seen much more of the good than the bad, I should be happier more often.