Brutal story of physical, psychological and sexual abuse

Rating: 3/10 (23 January 2012)

Academy awards for this piece of trash? The only thing preventing me from rating it as a 1 is the cinematography that bleakly maintains the dark content of the script. This is a tale of the constant abuse of a poor mute woman at the hands of her husband and her neighbor. SPOILER ALERT. I should have gotten up and left the theater when her husband cut off one of her fingers with an ax. I watched this movie with a woman who had been a victim of abuse. To say that I was uncomfortable would be a massive understatement. I saw the film when it was first released in an art house theater in Seattle. I wish I hadn't. I am haunted to this day by images I would desperately like to forget