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White writer Wendy has moved into a black neighbourhood in Brooklyn as
inspiration for her latest book. Doesn't sound like too good an idea from
the outset, but she is too naive and too idealistic to realize that. Upon
her arrival in her new neighbourhood, three black thugs harrass her from
across the street of her house, two by hollering racist insults at her, a
third by desperately trying to get a date with her. He just doesn't seem
too into getting no for an answer. However, her landlord Stan seems to be
a very different kind of person, he is well-read, has read all her books,
tries to make her place as comfortable as possible ... but he's the really
creepy guy, a fanboy who's obsessed with the object of his admiration,
Wendy, and for that he has furnished her apartment exactly like her old
apartment he has seen pictures of in some magazine, and he tries to hit on
her, right in front of his wife ... whom he later even throws out of the
house because he's so obsessed with Wendy. It seems wherever Wendy is
going the three thugs show up, and they are getting more agressive every
time. One day, they even refuse to let her into her apartment - but then
Stan appears as the knight in shining armour and escorts her inside the
building, then invites her into his apartment to calm her down. When she
finally gets into her own apartment though, the thugs are already there,
and now they know no bounds and brutally gangrape her. Only when the
thugs are gone again does Stan show up once more, offering her a shoulder
to cry on and to call the police. But there is something more sinister on
Stan's mind ... Click
here to open the Spoiler Pop-up! A very bleak and disturbing film that
culminates in an extended and hard-to-watch gangrape scene, and the efect
of the gilm is only heightened by a very raw editing job, long takes taken
by (rather unshaky) hand-held cameras, and a great female lead who really
knows how to express fear and desperation. It's also interesting to note
that the film doesn't follow the usual road from rape to retaliation
(there are some I Spit on Your
Grave-like revenge scenes here, but they only happen in Wendy's
mind), but, with the punchline ending, the movie only goes from bad to
worse. So it's grim, it's bleak, it's raw - but it's definitely worth a
watch, you just have to have the stomach for it.
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