XVI — Much Better — Rape and More

The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan from a screenplay written by Tom Topor. The film is loosely based on the 1983 gang rape of Cheryl Araujo in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accused_(1988_film)

I’m in tears! My Autism is “acting up” incredibly (sic)! Ten minutes ago as Jodie Foster’s first Oscar winning performance was coming to a conclusion, I totally lost it. If I had been driving a car then, I would have needed to immediately pull over to avoid a possible crash.

I don’t recall ever watching a movie with a totally explicit rape scene, particularly of a gang rape. That was horrifying, but that isn’t what totally got to me. Jodie Foster was amazing, simply amazing! The young rape witness who testified and through that really “convicted” — the guilty — was most credible, believable and encouraging. Neither of the two of them were “heroes” — in the normal use of that word. They both were individuals we might speak of as: “flawed”.

There are the “innocent rape victims” — who we all feel empathy for. The “nun” assaulted in a locked house, with locked windows is a stereotypical example of this. No one could accuse her of being complicit in her rape.

There are the “justifiable rape victims” — the women — who “asked for it”.

Rosa Parks was portrayed as the “innocent victim” on segregated buses, because she was not “flawed” by “immoral behavior” that a prior…