Powerful, honest, to the point, sad, healing, cathartic, courageous, ultimately we have no victims here and end up with what humans truly are, especially women, survivors. The film is an act of love, for self and for every person on the planet who has ever experienced rape, sexual or otherwise, where one's intimacy and privacy are violated especially at the tender age of 14 when life is fresh and new, suddenly gone bad. I only wish this film came out 10 years ago.
The film profoundly affects as Anders says it like it is, walks the walk, talks the talk, and, as surviver of rape myself, the film angered, upset, and saddened me, yet I couldn't move myself out of my chair. I appreciate the blunt honesty and the integrity in which the film is detailed, I liked the congruity and coherent flashbacks from the past to the present..., delicate yet strongly done, it slams home the sociopathic brutality of an act of violence, not sex, portrayed by one of the rapists, Eric Stoltz, now a grown man who claims "we were only kids," his lack of remorse makes your skin crawl, his younger brother riddled with guilt, the film portrays one of the most inhuman acts one could perpetrate upon another in a strong yet sensitive way. Stoltz makes you want to kick him in the pants twice and have a hot fudge Sunday afterward. The film is exquisitely written and tuned with feeling. Any survivor of rape or otherwise is going to be affected by the way the event is poured out onto the screen in vivid color, the opposite of the color the world turns when one looks through the eyes of rape, you wonder how to get back into your own skin, the teenage girl now a grown woman struggling with her own sexual identity and the fact she's sterile from the rape..., the focus is not on the rape itself but the aftermath. Anders demonstrates the price paid for this act. Things Behind the Sun is a do tell, no-nonsense, right to the point film not for the faint of heart or giggly type. I recommend you see this film and take your kids, especially your teenage boys. This is living truth, not fiction. "God grant me the serenity," indeed, and "thanks for sharing".
The film profoundly affects as Anders says it like it is, walks the walk, talks the talk, and, as surviver of rape myself, the film angered, upset, and saddened me, yet I couldn't move myself out of my chair. I appreciate the blunt honesty and the integrity in which the film is detailed, I liked the congruity and coherent flashbacks from the past to the present..., delicate yet strongly done, it slams home the sociopathic brutality of an act of violence, not sex, portrayed by one of the rapists, Eric Stoltz, now a grown man who claims "we were only kids," his lack of remorse makes your skin crawl, his younger brother riddled with guilt, the film portrays one of the most inhuman acts one could perpetrate upon another in a strong yet sensitive way. Stoltz makes you want to kick him in the pants twice and have a hot fudge Sunday afterward. The film is exquisitely written and tuned with feeling. Any survivor of rape or otherwise is going to be affected by the way the event is poured out onto the screen in vivid color, the opposite of the color the world turns when one looks through the eyes of rape, you wonder how to get back into your own skin, the teenage girl now a grown woman struggling with her own sexual identity and the fact she's sterile from the rape..., the focus is not on the rape itself but the aftermath. Anders demonstrates the price paid for this act. Things Behind the Sun is a do tell, no-nonsense, right to the point film not for the faint of heart or giggly type. I recommend you see this film and take your kids, especially your teenage boys. This is living truth, not fiction. "God grant me the serenity," indeed, and "thanks for sharing".