<[caeb]> In my defense, I was really just in the room while the movie happened. It was pretty horrible. I would add to your point something like, Christ, can we knock it off with violence against women as convenient-yet-easily-dismissed plot point? Not that this hasn't been said before, a lot. But come on, aren't people at least bored by now? This is probably why I like older movies so much. Obviously they're messed up, but I can view their social failures from a bit more distance, even when they're still agonizingly relevant. <[caeb]> (Granted my comment doesn't have that much to do with your post. I meant to say that The Film Industry's treatment of women, generally, is just one of dozens of other good markers for this I Don't Think Leftist Means What You Told Me It Means... thing.)