Sex as power. Sex as revenge. Sex as... rehabilitation?
If you turn the effects of an ordeal back on your tormentor, then you diminish the hold that they have over you.
Verhoeven has always wielded his themes like blunt instruments, and the same is true here... That doesn't make this a bad film, but it's definitely not sensitive, or subtle!
If you turn the effects of an ordeal back on your tormentor, then you diminish the hold that they have over you.
Verhoeven has always wielded his themes like blunt instruments, and the same is true here... That doesn't make this a bad film, but it's definitely not sensitive, or subtle!