The rape scene ruined the movie
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Into the Forest
reggieweezy — 9 years ago(December 22, 2016 08:27 PM)
Eva is chopping wood with a large axe, and a creepy dude shows up with obvious evil intentions. Eva was a smart girl, and knew that the man was bad news. Instead of chopping the creeps head off with the axe, she has a conversation with him, and tries to scare him away by lying to him about her father being close. I am not making this up. Instead of fighting this rapist with a huge axe, she talks to him. Nobody would act this way. I could understand a mentally challenged person not swinging the axe, but even a person with below average intelligence would have fought with the axe as soon as the dude showed up. It would have been believable if the dude would have snuck up on her, and caught her by surprise. Just very dumb that she actually had an axe, and stood there knowing this guy was going to rape her.
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FCA1975 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 07:13 PM)
You would think Bell would be the vulnerable one. But I agree with the replier to your post. You can't just off someone because they look like or you think they might be a problem. You have to be smarter and be on guard and wary, which none of these people seemed to be.
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Yorick_Brown — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 08:53 PM)
You have to be smarter and be on guard and wary,
which none of these people seemed to be.
Huh? She had that axe in her hand and he simply overpowered her. She couldn't do anything more.
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Yorick_Brown — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 07:12 PM)
"Just very dumb that she actually had an axe, and stood there knowing this guy was going to rape her"
Huh? How would she KNOW that exactly???
And it's not like she put her guard down.
While plot holes do exist, I've noticed that TV & film viewers can be overly critical and judge a character's merely unlucky fate as dumb.
No. I do NOT believe that you, who has never killed someone before, would just chop someone up with an axe the moment you see them! -
imdb-20212 — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 12:55 PM)
She had "normalcy bias". Remember, these two ladies have been out in their secluded forest home, unaware of the breakdown of society.
Then along comes someone who she knows she's met him; he knows her name; he gave them candles. Sure, he seems a little skeevy now and is acting like someone up to no good, but she hasn't lived the type of life that would prepare her for how to react to that.
She did put up a good fight at first, showing she wasn't going to be an easy victim, but in the end she was just a very vulnerable person in a bad situation.
Notice that after that event, they finally took security seriously. I mean, it's easy for me watching the movie to scream at them beforehand "Take that rifle with you wherever you go! Don't trust that sketchy dude!" But for them, it took a nasty wake up call for them to realize the world wasn't the same and they needed to stop acting like it was.
So, as tough as it was to watch that scene unfold, it was eerily realistic shockingly so. -
Pilatunes — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 07:10 PM)
It was very unpleasant. But then again rape is awful.
That being said, you are right. It's annoying when a protagonist being stupid is a plot device. First, of course, there's her behavior wrt to the axe. But even when they were on the ground, the guys got his fingers an 1/4 inch from her mouth. And it doesn't occur to her to sink her teeth into one and crush the damn thing?