Were either of those as blatant as "the rich Los Angeles rapist is going to be publicly known to do rapes and get away with it because the institutions of LA have his back"?
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Ha, it's still not as blatant as him making Death and the Maiden (although that film was based on an existing stage play he didn't write)
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It's like if the wizard book lady had actually had a horrible TĒ R F villain in one of her books, and the heroes were disgusted by her, but she won, and you realized in retrospect that that was the whole point
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Or, as in the case of me watching Chinatown, I went in knowing about Polanski and the plot was shocking to me because I kept thinking "well it can't be THAT, that would be telling on himself" and then, welp
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Death and the Maiden is worse, it literally ends with the bad guy giving a full confession and accounting of his motives
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Death and the Maiden takes place in an analogue of Chile after the fall of the Pinochet regime, in the home of a married couple who were previously dissidents - the husband had escaped into exile, the wife had spent years as a prisoner
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The plot kicks off with their neighbor seeking shelter from a storm, and the wife slowly coming to believe that he's the doctor who raped and tortured her while she was in prison, leading to her kidnapping him in order to try to force him into a confession
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
And our viewpoint character is the husband, who's stuck trying to figure out if this is all true or if she's crazy and delusional
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And, like, the big moment of the movie, the Wham Line, is when she drags the guy to the edge of a cliff and he's absolutely certain he's going to die and he drops the act and lets it all come vomiting out of him, his full confession
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"I liked it... I liked not having to be nice, to be able to do whatever I wanted I pretended to be good at first, that I meant no harm, I was only curious to see what I could get away with But I changed, I fell in love with it The power, having all the power "
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"I could decide, on a whim, whether you could have a good day or a bad day, to hurt you or please you, and you had to thank me either way I've never felt so good, been so happy They were the best days of my life, and I was sorry it ended, I was so so sorry it ended"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
With this grim resignation that he's going to go over the cliff and it doesn't matter anymore
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And then the husband is about to shove him over the cliff and then collapses sobbing "I can't do it, I'm sorry, I can't do it" And the wife just wordlessly unties him and lets him go
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