I Spit On Your Grave
I will be recommending this movie to no one. Really not worth the time, in my opinion. Although Jennifer cutting off her rapist's dick was kind of a redeemable scene for me. I don't really think it was that well done, but it definitely has an undeniable "wow" factor. Something that I was trying to wrap my mind around was the contradictory definitions offered by Creed in her chapter on "the femme castratrice". She asserts that men fear women both as castrated and one who castrates. I Spit On Your Grave is unique in that, Jennifer occupies both of these positions. What seemed at odds to me in Creed's definitions, was that the castrated female is punished for her transgressions in patriarchal society, whereas the castrating female apparently is rarely punished for her behavior and seen as justified in her actions. What I wanted to know is how do we reconcile these two theories in one character? Jennifer fulfills the role castrated woman, for as a s...
