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When No Means No
Jodie Foster gives a performance of a lifetime in her portrayal of a rape victim who is essentially demonized by a system that questions the motives of a woman who "placed herself into a situation of mixed messages."
The rape scene is graphic and depicts the utter viciousness of such attacks. The movie also shows a legal system that places barriers in front of the individual who suffered one of the most heinous crimes imaginable. She is everything but a victim; a liar, a drunk, a drug addict, a "bad" person.
I strongly feel the movie should be scheduled in a classroom setting for every high-school senior. The messages within this society remain unbelievably muddled that the real ramifications of this crime should be seen and discussed.
The Accused is as powerful today as when it was released in 1988. And I guess that says how little society has advanced in the treatment of women.
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When no means no.
The Accused is a excellent movie about how a woman is treated after being raped. Kelly McGillis and Jodie Foster make a great team. Foster plays a gang-raped survivor looking for justice in hyprocritical world where men are not held responsible for their actions. Foster received a well-deserved Oscar as her fearless performance of Sarah. There is a graphic rape scene towards the closing of the film that is to be expected since the main theme of this film is about the outcomes of a terrible and vicious rape. Unfortanely, females are still considered "damaged goods" when something this hineous occurs. McGillis's character seeks justice from the men who raped her in a downtown bar and even goes after the men who watched and cheered on the rape and did nothing to stop it. A powerful and superb film all around. This film will force you to see the truth and make you want to change the legal system. Not recommend for younger viewers.
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Absorbing drama!
This is a powerful and tense script loaded of full realism. Foster plays the role of an uninhibited woman who decides to fit adjusted pants, exposing great latitudes of her anatomy. This will be the initial premise which will become a true nightmare for her, when the passions ignite the low depths of drunk boys.
The investigation and exposure of motives will be carried to the Court where it will be an interesting exchange of opinions and accusations. The script is well written and the suspense will be waiting for you all along.
Jodie Foster won his first coveted Prize as Best Actress playing this role.
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A Star is Born
Jodie Foster became an actress to watch with this movie. This movie is definitely influenced by early Law & Order. First a movie about a crime, then a movie about society's responsibility in the crime.
Jodie Foster is a fiery independent woman who goes to a local bar after a fight with her boyfriend. She has mischief on her mind but when a group of frat boys decide they will not take no for an answer, they rape her on the pinball machine.
She then faces further humiliation of the police and the degradation of trial where she, the victim, is put on trial. After the perpetrators are acquitted, the prosecutor (Kelly McGillis) puts the spectators on trial. This movie says that not only are the people who commit the crime responsible but those who stand by and encourage it to happen.
Tom Topor wrote the outstanding screenplay. He also wrote the play and screen adaptation of Nuts, another great courtroom drama. His heroine is not a clean cut responsible person but a flawed woman trying to make a living and a life. This is more realistic than other films that would have a perfect Sarah.
Jodie Foster gives a well deserved Oscar winning performance. This was her coming out party. She was no longer a child star or a sensation. Kelly McGillis gives her best performance of her career. She also should have been nominated but Foster overshadowed her.
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Pretty bad
I don't think Jodie Foster deserved an Oscar for this role. For one thing, her accent keeps slipping between that weird southernish accent she has, and a New Jersey-esque accent. That is not something an Oscar-winner should do. Other than that her acting is good but not Oscar worthy.
The film starts out with Jodie running out of a bar, and with a man calling 911 saying a woman is being raped. The lawyer who takes her case lets the rapists plead down to some lesser charge that isn't associated with sexual assault. This makes Jodie's character very angry. The (female) lawyer begins to feel bad and wants to pin a rape-ish charge on someone. She goes against all the male partners at her firm, and prosecutes the men who watched and cheered the rapists on. If she can convict them, not only will they go to jail, but the men already in jail for the rape, will actually be convicted of rape and it will be on the books or whatever. A matter of principle I guess. That man who called 911 is the only one who can really verify that she was raped and that the others cheered it on. But he doesn't want to testify...
This film is all about man-bashing and it is painfully obvious. The man who can prove she was raped doesnt want to come forward, the rapists dont even realize they have committed rape, the male prosecutors are all against the woman lawyer who wants justice for Jodie, Jodie's boyfriend is insensitive to the fact that she was gang raped, on and on. This movie clearly sends the message "Men bad, woman (not matter how cheap and loose) good"
Jodie's character is a trashy slut. No one deserves to be raped, but she plays a real low-life in this movie. I actually liked that about the film. It wasn't some innocent virgin who just got mauled. It was a really trashy girl, so trashy that no one in the bar did anything about her rape because she was such a loose scumbag that everyone just thought it was her usual antics.
It's a good story, but the way that they made it so "all men are evil", it felt like a TV movie on Lifetime. It is pretentious in that way. The movie constantly reminds you that all the men are bad, and the woman is a poor helpless thing. If the movie didn't insist I was an idiot and barrage me with all this "insensitive male" crap, I still would have gotten the point, and I wouldn't have rolled my eyes at the movie as much as I did.
I don't feel this is worth owning, unless you are a huge Foster fan. Rent it instead.
