Monika’s Pensieve

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Nihon shunka-kô (Japan, 1967)
Seen: Thursday, 9th July 2009 (cinema, Lato Filmów festival)
Runtime: 103′
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Production House: Sozosha
Plot: Four male university students have just finished with exams and they’re bored and horny. A teacher gets drunk and starts singing vulgar erotic songs to his students, which fuels the erotic imagination of the four students even [...]

Here’s the story of one of the men in the chilling South African rape statistics that I mentioned before. I think it sheds some light on why rape happens in the RSA so often.

This article is very chilling - apparently one in four men in South Africa admit to having raped somebody.

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Watchmen (USA, 2009)
Seen: Sunday, 15th March 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 162′
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino
Production House: Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions, DC Comics
Plot: While the cold war threatens everybody with nuclear extinction, a couple of ageing, isolated [...]

Not long ago, I posted this - a report about an Afghan father, who is fighting for justice for his teenage daughter, who is a rape victim. It takes a lot of guts to go against the social system like that.
But, alas, not all of the teenage rape stories from Afghanistan are like that. Some [...]

A 13-year old girl was raped and later stoned for adultery.

Read the story here.