Review of Extremities

Extremities (1986)
Crudely exploitative
4 December 2000
This remarkably stupid film expects us to swallow the idea that a man's confession made under threat of violence in front of witnesses solves the female victim's problem. The reality is that any confession made by a man threatened with having his private parts eviscerated is inevitably going to be thrown out of court. This film ends where it should really be beginning, in examining the low conviction rates for sexual assault and why the system lets some men get away with multiple rape time and again but settles instead for cheap exploitation and bogus catharsis.
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