I'm torn because most of your examples are movies that I like and I think they actually use the rape background story well. Especially VM which has a nice moment in a college rape storyline (the season 2 introduction) in which she counsels a rape victim (and one that saves that episode from being an "evil feminists cry rape and railroad poor innocent shmuck" episode).
Also one of the points of Game of Thrones is just how brutal and terrible the Middle Ages were (kind of love it for that reasons since it's the first Epic Fantasy book I've read that breaks with the Tolkien trope of setting everything at the Renaissance Festival) and I really liked the way book 4 delineated between one kingdom in which women were equals and the rest of Westeros which is very much a rape culture.
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Date: 2012-06-13 03:00 pm (UTC)Also one of the points of Game of Thrones is just how brutal and terrible the Middle Ages were (kind of love it for that reasons since it's the first Epic Fantasy book I've read that breaks with the Tolkien trope of setting everything at the Renaissance Festival) and I really liked the way book 4 delineated between one kingdom in which women were equals and the rest of Westeros which is very much a rape culture.