One of them, his face pixilated, is interviewed in jail.Īnnie Clark, a pre-med freshman at University of North Carolina, had her head slammed into a wall before she was assaulted.
#The hunting ground serial
Professor David Lisak insists that most rapes are committed by a small percentage of serial predators. This is nothing like the mixed-message drunken hook-up scenario so often cited by conservatives skeptics. Move forward to the first couple of weeks of school, and we start hearing the grim testimonies: There's a friendly mixer with alcohol, and suddenly, a first-year student finds herself isolated with a guy she's just met. The film opens with a montage of scenes of young women and their families getting the joyful news that they've been received into college, the gateway to a better life. The film was produced by CNN (the same cable network which drew outrage for its sympathetic coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio, high school rapists in 2013), and it follows last year's White House's initative to address campus sexual violence. This is a film aimed at making mainstream audiences aware that campus sexual assault is common.
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No doubt the filmmakers knowingly included women who were high-achieving, relatable and articulate, and, in all the cases we see, they were supported by their families. They describe experiences of cruel violence or of authority figures' callousness, and it's heartbreaking. They don't look like they want to be on camera, but they don't flinch or become emotional. Though there are statistics galore, it's the stories that stick.
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Though far from a perfect film, The Hunting Ground is a significant piece of advocacy journalism that shows young women refusing to be mute about crimes that have been commited against them. Let's run that again: The guardians of liberal freedom in those hot houses of political correctness behave like the marines when it comes to closing ranks against accusations of sexual assault?įortunately, silence isn't so easy to impose on students. Women students said, in effect, that it was the same story at their schools. When director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering were touring university campuses with The Invisible War, their Oscar-nominated film about sexual assault and cover-up in the military, they had some interesting feedback.