Ashley Judd wirft ihrem Film „Kiss the Girls“ aus dem Jahr 1997 vor, dass er „aus sexueller Folter Unterhaltung“ gegen Frauen mache: „Es ist traumatisch“ und „Warum ist es profitabel?“
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/ashley-judd-kiss-the-girls-sexual-torture-entertainment-1236682831/
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> ‘”Kiss the Girls’ centers on male sexual violence and the torture of women’s bodies,” Judd wrote in her caption. “At the time, we often framed stories like this around female resilience—the strength of surviving. Many people still say that’s what the film means to them. But I’ve found myself asking a different question: Why is sexual terror against women something we package as entertainment? Why is it profitable?”
She had no problem cashing that check
I think its fair to look back at different standards society had at one point in time esp compared to now. Nothing wrong with questioning things. But to some degree we also have to remember that it was acceptable at the time and luckily, we know better. I rewatched Gremlins. A movie I enjoyed as a kid but there are lines in that movie that did not age well.
Just look at things like Dateline and 20/20 that have been around for decades.
Most of the people who consume the true crime genre are women.
Why is murder okay for entertainment? Or drug and alcohol use? Or anything bad?
TAKE THAT *checks notes*… THIRTY YEAR OLD MOVIE!
Let’s pretend the world is a paradise. Yeah, that will solve problems.
So should movies like Schindlers List not exist?
Should movies only show happy go lucky fantasies while burring truth and reality?
Another rich and out of touch celebrity who think they can make the whole world as comfortable as their 5 star hotels by complaining and virtue signaling.
I feel like people are just trying too hard nowadays..
I love that movie
2nd day of old women complaining about 30 year old movies.
I think the victims we choose to create in the art we make deserve a great deal of dignity, despite them obviously not being real.
You cannot rely on the argument that the real world has violence and violence against women, if you are unwilling to provide the victims of fictional crimes with a modicum of care.
In some way, you telegraph how you imagine or treat real people, by how you choose to treat the fictional people you have complete control over.
Movies and fiction will always have crime, and violent crime at that. But we’ve come a long way on the way the eye of the camera, the director, and the audience treats the victims of that crime.
Of course we still have a ways to go.
I appreciate her weighing in on this. It’s valuable to have people take accountability for their role in shaping culture in a negative way. That particular movie had a very negative impact on my life–I was actually raped by someone during a date while we watched it.
Well give the money back
Everyone should read the article before jumping to conclusions. She says, among other things;
„Thank you for loving the movie, thank you for loving me in it. Thank you for making it such a— I was gonna say pivotal but I would even say a transformative moment in my career.“
It’s a good movie but I agree. I get so tired of the SA warnings. As a victim of SA I can never get away from it. It’s everywhere.
I thought how they changed her character from the book was really intriguing. In both forms she isn’t defined by what happens to her and you are able to see her process/begin to recover and she’s the reason all the other women are rescued. They weren’t glorifying the villain at all in either form. His character is way more disgusting and gratuitous in the book, but it’s to show hey this guy’s a fucking monster. It goes into way more detail about criminology and psychology, which was kinda lost in the movie. People like that exist, we’ve seen it time and time again. „Making entertainment“ is such a weird take imo, where do we draw the line? No suffering, nothing illegal, nothing realistic?
Maybe she should ask Gary Felder who directed it, or James’s Patterson who wrote the book that it was based on.
I remember that movie being pretty tame tbh. Wait until she finds out about actual exploitative movies. Not just a movie that has some icky subject matter.
Good old Ashley trying to stay relevant .
Mom, can we watch Silence of the Lambs?
No, we have Kiss the Girls at home.
For me, the purpose of art is to drive discussion about the world. Violence against women is a huge part of that world, and id much rather be educated about the possible than be shocked by it. Would you rather violent presentations of media be illegal or something? Who would that empower? What would be the consequence if we just hid what some like…let’s say Weinstein… did instead of having it televised and driving our future consideration? There are limits to all things, of course, but I dont think this movie does more harm than benefit.