Posts Tagged ‘The Killer Inside Me’
Portraying graphic violence against women is pretty boring now, isn’t it? I posted last week about the furore around the release of this film. There’s been a huge amount of debate in the press and online about whether the violence in this film is misogynistic or not, and whether the violence in Jim Thompson’s novel […]
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The Killer Inside Me
29May10
Michael Winterbottom’s new film “The Killer Inside Me”, based on the novel by Jim Thompson, has received accusations of misogyny. The criticism centres around a scene where the main character punches a woman (played by Jessica Alba) so hard that her face collapses in on itself. It sounds like a sickeningly violent scene in […]
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