What word best describes this film - how about rubbish? Nora and her sister were raised by their widowed father after their mother died. Nora was about thirteen at the time, at any rate she was thirteen when her father accused her of staying out late (true) and dressing like a slut (subjective). So what does he do for punishment? He takes her to the woodshed - in American parlance - and rapes her. Seriously?
We are led to believe this is why Nora is one of life's failures while her sister is a high flyer. We see the rape in flashback - nothing graphic, just suggestion. We also see Nora acting like a slut, and far, far worse, driving three times over the limit which results in her killing her best friend and ending up behind bars where she is first forced to fellate a male prison officer and then sexually assaulted by a lesbian cellmate. While she submits to the former, she gets the better of the latter, and ends up in solitary.
Towards the end she confronts her father, who admits his foul deed, but he is in a wheelchair and clearly not much of a protagonist, although he tends to put on a front.
What is the point of this rubbish? Perhaps it is a feminist propaganda document, but most likely it is simply rubbish. The film's one saving grace is its soundtrack, but even Roger Taylor - he of Queen fame - can't save it from the ignominy it deserves.
We are led to believe this is why Nora is one of life's failures while her sister is a high flyer. We see the rape in flashback - nothing graphic, just suggestion. We also see Nora acting like a slut, and far, far worse, driving three times over the limit which results in her killing her best friend and ending up behind bars where she is first forced to fellate a male prison officer and then sexually assaulted by a lesbian cellmate. While she submits to the former, she gets the better of the latter, and ends up in solitary.
Towards the end she confronts her father, who admits his foul deed, but he is in a wheelchair and clearly not much of a protagonist, although he tends to put on a front.
What is the point of this rubbish? Perhaps it is a feminist propaganda document, but most likely it is simply rubbish. The film's one saving grace is its soundtrack, but even Roger Taylor - he of Queen fame - can't save it from the ignominy it deserves.