This criticism was most bluntly expressed by an audience member who, during the film’s premiere in Sydney this past Sunday, exclaimed upon her exit, “I’m not watching this. She’s already been raped twice.” And yet, Jennifer Kent is resolute in the film she’s presented the audience, as she told The Independent in her remarks, enforcing that the atrocities she’s put onto film were historically accurate.
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