Blogs Against Humanity - Adventures in Sympathetic Misanthropy

...the great BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER re-watch and review of 2020 is coming.  I've watched Buffy. A lot. I've probably watched the complete series from end-to-end about 3 times. I started my 4th re-watch back in 2016, so I could watch it through with my Girlfriend. However, it petered off in season 3 due to scheduling, and it was never completed.  I'll go into greater length about all of this when I start my reviews proper, but suffice it to say, BUFFY and ANGEL both mean a hell of a lot to me to this day. Even though I didn't grow up with it, since I was a grown man when it began, its still a part of the fabric of who I have become.  Sure, I've watched it, read books about it, read some books and a lot of comics set within its universe, listened to the music from the series, and even sat in on discussion-panels at conventions about it. But, even though I have at times analyzed its content and its themes, I've never truly sat down and watched it with an eye ...

A woman wronged, betrayed and violated not once, not twice, but three times, a casualty of the most toxic aspects of masculinity: the perpetrator who only takes, the bystander who consciously decides not to bother caring, and the silencer who will do anything to keep his secrets. Each step is an atrocity of its own, piling up into a waking nightmare. Now, discarded by those who care only for themselves, the woman is left for dead. However, she's not dead at all. Finding reserves of strength that she didn't know she possessed, she rises from the ashes of her old life, reborn. Hell hath no fury like a woman...betrayed. REVENGE is a 2017 French-made film that condemns, in the strongest terms, toxic masculinity, and bashes rape-culture right in its face. There have been a lot of films in the "woman gets even" sub-genres of Action, Drama, and Horror, and most of them have been what amounts to exploitation films. One of the most well-known, and notorious, films in this sub...