Product: Day of the Woman (1978)
Rating: 1.0
Yawn........yawn.....yawn.....
This movie is 100 minutes of nothingness. Those who lambasted it might have overeacted; those who praised it were surely misguided. The fact is this movie is a complete waste of time -- both in watching it, and in giving it a split second of thought afterwards. Some of those who find themselves liking it seem to like it because "well, it wasn't as bad as some critics said." What a compliment.This movie will satisfy NO movie fans. Fans of exploitation horror flicks will surely be dumbfounded by the filmmaker's inept attempt to inject "seriousness" to the material. Those who looked for violence a la Scream or Friday the 13th will be disappointed by how little the amount and uncreative the effort. Those who hope to see some soft-core pornography will surely be let down (in more ways than one) because the realistic way those rape scenes are filmed simply isn't designed to titillate the viewer (those who enjoy watching them must be sadists or potential rapists).Some praise the realism of the rape scenes (attributable to Camille Keaton's all-too-real performance as the victim) and the supposedly feminist subtext in the scenes where the victim kills her rapists for revenge. But let's get real here. Does the movie back up these important real-life topics with any semblance of substance and intelligence? It sure as hell does not. The story is of moronic simplicity; long, meaningless scenes fill the gaps between the rapes and the revenges. The director simply counts on the mere images of a woman being raped and her rapists being maimed and killed to fulfill his highly questionnable purpose. Such shallowness inpires the viewer to think: why should I CARE? And I didn't.To see an example of a serious, artistic film about a woman's rape and her rapists punished, one should check out Ingmar Bergman's "Virgin Spring". Director Meir Zarchi could have learned so much from it.