FILMS AND RAPE
Kenneth Turan brilliantly described how modern filmmakers demean the moviegoer with violent excess and cheap overkill (“Aggravating Assaults,” Oct. 8). However, I remind him to add “Pulp Fiction” to his short list of mainstream films with a male rape scene.
Despite the award nominations and kudos from many critics, this film was a stellar example of a lazy filmmaker manipulating the audience by combining “cringe on cue” violence with an attempt at humor. To be asked to laugh at the savagery and human degradation depicted in that film left me feeling just as Turan described: soiled and coarsened by the experience.
ANGELA GEHEGAN
La Mesa
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