I don’t know whether to say that the lead character is a total dumbass or a badass. Read on and you’ll see what I mean. Some interesting information regarding this movie is that this film was banned in several countries because it condoned violence against women. The original title of this movie was Day of the woman then later changed in 1980 for its re-release to its current name. It was rejected several times before the Motion picture association of America allowed it to pass. Scenes were taken out of the film including an anal rape scene. So she’s a writer, and what better place to write a novel in a house in the middle of nowhere where everyone else seems to be males and the only entertainment is a grocery store and a shitty gas station. She stops to get gas and meets the three men who hang out there who later in the movie rape her. Theres a retarded dude named Matthew also a friend works at the grocery store and delivers the womans groceries to her home, and they have happy stupid banter. She writes outside one day on a hammock and the 4 friends pass by in a speed boat and see her then ride away. They come back the next day, and this time she’s in a canoe in a bikini just asking for it. They pull her canoe onto land and drag her out of the boat so that Matthew can lose his virginity. He doesn’t want do so one of them, Johnny rapes her and they walk away.
She walks to her home crazy slow. I’m thinking why are you walking so slow? you aren’t in pain, fuckin run! Shortly after the men hunt her down and pin her over the top of a rock and another friend starts raping her, finishes his duty then they walks away. Afterwards she basically crawls home gets there to call the cops and then the last thing you need is the shoe of a rapist kicking the phone off the table. Not cool.
So now I’m thinking, you had it coming, ya gave them enough time to get to your place before you. So she gets raped again by another male in the living room while the others watch and drink booze trying to convince Matthew to bang her. She just lays there motionless while the loser strips his clothes off and halfway through he figures out that he can’t do it and gets dressed. She passes out and they leave, but make Matthew return to kill her, cuz well what they did was bad. He’s given a knife and can’t come to kill her so he dabs the knife near her face where the is blood residue found and runs back to show the bloody knife to his friends and tell them that he killed her. Now after facing all of that shit and living, would you still live there? I’m just like ahh so stupid get the fuck out and drive away. But no…we have to remember that this is a horror film and like most characters they act stupid and dig deeper instead of leaving it be, or at least calling the cops in this case. All this raping toughens her up. At this point of the movie I’m like, where is the horror? it’s all just rape, but then this is where it gets good. The friends shun Matthew after finding out that he never killed her and he runs away and goes back to work. She decides to get groceries and he goes to the home to deliver them and has Matthew chase her through the woods and takes her robe off while he threatens to kill her. She’s like no, I’m too sexy and you can’t resist me. Well she’s right cuz before you know they are having sex, but in the back of my mind im wondering why would she allow him to do that?! That’s crazy dumb, but luckily she’s got a noose nearby and slips it over his head while he’s humping her on the ground and he was having so much fun that he didn’t notice until she starts to pull on the other end of the rope which hangs him high up on a tree with his pants down.
- “feeling like a fool with your pants on the ground…”
She puts the body and the bike into the water and leaves it there to continue the rest of her revenge. Now I’m like yeah! you rule, get your revenge! She then goes to the gas station and seduces one of those who rape, Johnny that is. He gets into the car and she drives into the woods. He gets out of the car and opens her door and pulls out a pistol aiming at him. Yeah kill him! Nooope, he convinces her to drop the gun and they both go to her house for a nice relaxing bath. After somebody pulls a gun out on you would you go take a bath with them? Hell no, this dude is just as stupid. They get into the bathtub and she jerks him off a bit and he’s loving it. Shes got a knife under a rug in the bathroom and since his eyes are closed he doesn’t notice until he feels a pain which takes him a bit to realize that his dick got cut off. She puts her robe on and locks the door leaving him to bleed out in the bathroom and listens to music to drown out his screams upstairs. After he dies it looks like she puts his body down some sort of stairs and burns all his clothing.
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We aren’t done yet there are still two more men that she must hunt down and get her revenge. The two remaining men get into the boat and ride down where she lays in a hammock and waits. They stop the boat and one of them gets out and starts searching for her on land. Meanwhile she’s already swimming out to the boat and gets in telling him that she wanted him all along, then pushes him out of the boat and circles him pretending she’s jaws or something about to attack her prey. He screams for his friend and he shows up cuz the dude who fell in the water can’t swim. So he jumps in to save his friend and he’s got a hatchet and somehow it accidentally falls into the boat that shes driving around in. Well now they are screwed. She circles around and sticks the hatchet into the dude who can swim in the back and dies in the water. Then approaches the other guy and turns the motor off as he pleads for his life. Then says the best damn thing in the entire movie and the last sentence in the film.. “Suck it Bitch” then turns on the motor and cut his legs and causes him to drown. The Credits begin to roll while she drives away in the boat. So is she dumb for staying or does she kick ass for getting her revenged. She lucked out, so many things could have gone wrong in each instance which could have fucked her over but luckily for her everything worked out to according to plan it seems. There is a 2010 remake of this film, which I must see soon!
-Sycka
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