There’s a reason the rape-revenge genre is so straightforwardly named. When you’re dealing with such distressing violence, blindsiding the audience is unadvised—you’re already putting them through a lot. It takes a discerning filmmaker, then, to change the formula without disrespecting the subject matter. Even Verhoeven, one of cinema’s masters of the profane and perverted, ran into controversy with Elle, an almost fatally provocative rape-revenge film in which the victim processes her assault by trying to!

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