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This film brought out a lot of feelings for me inside. Not only did I feel sorry for how women are taken advantage of but also how this society doesn't deal with what is actually going on. The film was filled with heart wrenching stories and really made me think about how we deal with rape and how we don't deal with rape. I felt extremely bad for these women and honestly I felt even worse for those who had taken advantage of their minds and their bodies. I say this because it takes a really sick person to take advantage of someone else and it makes me wonder what on Earth made them think they could take someone's control and power away from them. This whole topic really hits home with me because growing up I have a very close friend of mine be abused and touched by her uncle. What enraged me about it was when she told me about it I believed her and I wanted to help her. but when we told her mother she did not believe her own daughter. So the abuse continued for years and eventually my friend took her own life, as a way to escape the pain any longer that she could no longer endure. So with that said this film I think was very important to express how people's lives are impacted when their control is taken out of their hands and placed into someone elses. I think that feminist film makers do an excellent job when they advocate for womens' rights and bring up issues that people don't want to hear about or maybe don't know about. It makes me proud to be women and it's films like this that remind me that we have some serious issues that are not taken as seriously as they should be.

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