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Originally Posted by craigster59
I've seen the originals which are very good, and I can imagine the rape and other graphic scenes that were done "artistically" (it's a story point, it has to be portrayed) in the Swedish original are now seen in all their glory in the Hollywood version.
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They just plain screwed with you in this movie. They show the setup for the first rape scene. You know exactly what is going to happen and how bad it is going to be. That alone was extremely disturbing and would have sufficed in making the story point. Then they show the door of the room and it fades to black as the muffled screams are all that remain.
At this point you are shaken, and you collect your thoughts and prepare to move on, pondering the brutality of what you have just seen.
The screen stays black for maybe three seconds, then they go on to show the whole (or at least too much of the) brutal rape. The story point has already been made, this is just plain gratuitous.