The only reason for the rape: there are rapists

Horace 2022-01-13 08:01:30

The inspection lights in the hospital are very dazzling. When the doctor asks questions, does Sarah feel in a daze that she is the criminal being interrogated? The title of the movie is The accused, who is The accused? Are the three abusers? Or the three instigators? Or Sarah? She was accuseed because of "disorderly", and because she was not a perfect victim, sometimes she even felt that she was too low-educated and was accuseed?

Although the results of the movie are good and the bad guys are punished, the data on the black background and white characters at the end tells us that reality is sometimes not so good.

In reality, not everyone is as brave and determined as Sarah, and has a strong mentality; in reality, not all lawyers and police officers are so sympathetic and willing to take the risk of losing their jobs to help...

Crimes in the movie happen in reality, as well as the humiliation of slut, and it has not been resolved now. The comments below this movie are even analyzing how Sarah did something wrong.

I remember in the video of station B that I saw hundreds of people who went to the bar and got corpses. It is definitely not a good girl. I have seen comments that I feel that I have stayed in school and are almost unclean. The reality is the same as the movie...

A very touching comment: The 1988 movie is about 2021. When will there be a better world? When can we move forward? Guess we will never know.

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  • Colt 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Ever since I found out that Jodie Foster is a genius and LES, my opinion of her has skyrocketed. PS: You should also think about your own problems.

  • Olen 2022-03-24 09:03:03

    No is No. Why do you have to shout help. When all this happened, only by switching the subjective camera, looking at the group of people, watching them cheering, their faces like beasts, watching them participating in a collective identity ceremony called gang rape, did I know that at that time? How desperate and helpless the TA is - No. You see, even after more than 30 years, women still can't escape the humiliation of sluts, big night, wearing so little, alone, come to the bar, not whore what. What is a whore. when they said you were, you are. Because there is no culture, revealing clothes, drinking, smoking marijuana, dancing =rapeable=can be raped, any man has the right to tear off his clothes and release the original Desire, you look at the enjoyment on his face, watch everything happen, exert force, is he a man. It was just a hypothetical victory, too many people never made it to court - suicide. They are no longer there.

The Accused quotes

  • Kathryn Murphy: Listen again..."A person is guilty of criminal solicitation if he commands, induces, entreats or otherwise persuades another person to commit a felony-"

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: You can read it to me until you're blue in the face, I am not gonna let you prosecute a bunch of spectators -

    Kathryn Murphy: [cutting him off] They're not spectators. They solicited the rape.

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: Do you really want to ask a jury to lock up a bunch of people for clapping and cheering?

    Kathryn Murphy: Clapping? Cheering? Pushing? Goading? Getting the rape going and keeping it going!

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: And what happens if you lose? You'll look like an incompetent. If you win, you'll look like a vengeful bitch. Either way, you'll hurt yourself and this office. Now, drop it. You've got more important things to do.

    Kathryn Murphy: No I haven't.

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: You haven't got more important things to do than go to trial with a sure loser? What the hell's gotten into you?

    Kathryn Murphy: We owe her.

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: Owe her what? We put the rapists away.

    Kathryn Murphy: *I* owe her.

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: I see. You wanna spend my money to put a bunch of spectators on trial - a trial that you'll lose - because you owe her? No! You don't get to use this office to pay your debts!

    Kathryn Murphy: I am going to try this case and you are not going to stop me.

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: Kathryn, you're an ace. You've got a great future. Don't put it in jeopardy.

    Kathryn Murphy: What are you going to do, fire me? Go right ahead. My first case will be a civil suit against the rapists, the solicitors, the Bar and the State. I will show that Sarah Tobias ended up in a hospital bed because this office sold her out. I will personally subpoena your records, put you on the witness stand and cross-examine you about every single sleazy plea-bargain this office has ever made.

    [turning to exit]

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: [shouting] Go ahead! Try your case! Have a good time! Because win or lose, you're through!

    [turns to notice others in the office staring at him]

    D.A. Paul Rudolph: What are you lookin' at? Get back to work!

  • Kathryn Murphy: Ladies and Gentleman, Mr. Paulson has told you the testimony of Sarah Tobias is nothing. Sarah Tobias was raped but that is nothing. She was cut, bruised, and terrorized but that is nothing. All of it happened in front of a howling crowd and that is nothing. Well, it may be nothing to Mr. Paulson, but it is not nothing to Sarah Tobias and I don't believe it's nothing to you. Next, Mr. Paulson tried to convince you that Kenneth Joyce was the only one in that room who knew that Sarah Tobias was being raped. The only one. Now you watched Kenneth Joyce, how did he strike you? Did he seem specially sensitive? Did he seem so remarkable that you said to yourselves, "Of course. This man would notice things other people wouldn't." Do you believe that Kenneth Joyce saw something in that room that those three men didn't see. In all the time that Sarah was pinned down on that Pinball machine that other people didn't know? Kenneth Joyce confessed to you that he watched a rape and did nothing. He told you that everyone in that bar behaved badly and he was right. But no matter how immoral it may be, it is not the crime of criminal solicitation to walk away from a rape. It is not the crime of criminal solicitation to watch a rape. But it is the crime of criminal solicitation to induce, or entreat, or encourage, or persuade another person to commit a rape. Hold her down, stick it to her, make her moan. These three men did worse than nothing. They cheered and they clapped and they rooted the others on. They made sure that Sarah Tobias was raped, and raped, and raped, and raped. And tell me, was that nothing?