May 7, 2007
no lies
The woman in no lies is a very sympathetic character. It's hard to not feel for her, and to be honest, one might be somewhat of a monster if they have sympathy for the female protagonist of short film. Though this film is a classic, and was quite a statement for the time in which it was made, it is not a timeless piece, and as the years go on it simply looses more of the affect than what it had when it was first made. It's nice to know that women have more rights in todays society. It's also nice to know that men (and others) are becoming more aware of how sick and wrong a crime rape is. plus the american society as a whole are teaching their younn women to no longer take abuse of this nature. With all that being said, this is why the film looses more and more creditablitiy (in a modern context) as the years pass. It would be exppected that in todays society the things that were issues would not exist. New york isn't such a scary lace anymore. Police chiefs are urged to not be such creeps, and men in todays society are expected to do something if their femal friend tells them they were raped, they wouldn't just sit there and ask questions trying to figure out if their female friend was lying or not. Maybe the director wanted to point out issues that were relevant of the day, and doesn't care that his movie will not last through the ages. Maybe people still think that the issues presented in the film are still as relevant as they were then. I would hope not.
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I hope that you are right, that people don't react to the disclosure of a rape in the completely ignorant and hostile manner that the "filmaker" does, I hope that things have changed when women go to the police, and that they do have more "rights" (I would argue power) in the circumstances of rape. However, I feel there is insufficient, and perhaps unattainable evidence, to prove these statements as true. When you look at issues of rape in a modern context, for example, the Duke University LaCrosse Team, and see how muddied that case is, and has become - it's hard to see how these issues have been resolved and eliminated to the point of making this film irrelevant. The power structures that made the woman in no lies, and the women that the fim was based on feel so powerless and frustrated still exist today.
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