The Last House on the Left is based on a true tragedy that happened to a family. A teenage girl is kidnapped from a public place and is brutally beaten and raped. She is forced to watch her best friend being stabbed to death. The girl is later left for dead as she tries to escape her captors. She was shot in the back when she runs for help, barely making it to her house alive. When her parents find her on the back porch, they are determined to find the perpetrators. They come to the realization that the perpetrators are the people they have invited into their home. Filled with anger and vengeance, the parents vowed to take any steps and measures to not let the people leave their property alive.
It was a very suspenseful and violent film. The movie gave very graphic details during the rape scene and when the parents took out their vengeance. There is nothing worse than a parent’s anger when something happens to their children. This movie was a very disturbing movie to watch, but it was an eye opener to the things that could happen if you are empowered by anger and vengeance.
Most people that have watched this movie were disgusted and outraged of the graphic content. A few parents stated once the rape scene appeared, they shut the movie off and did not finish (momslikeme.com). Others said they just turned away or hit fast forward past the rape scene. It seems that in today’s world it is easier to just turn our heads to the violent acts that are bestowed upon a neighbor, rather than help. The film was based on a true history of the girl and what her parents did to avenge her.
Movies have a way to enlighten, thrill or impress people with the story and content, but when the stories are true, people seem to shun or ignore the movie. In a society the shows violence every day, whether by the evening news or local paper, why will people turn away to a movie that shows the graphic details of what is happening. My question to the readers is “What would you do?” Would you call the cops in hopes the legal system would convict the people, or would you avenge your daughter and take matters into your own hands?
It was a very suspenseful and violent film. The movie gave very graphic details during the rape scene and when the parents took out their vengeance. There is nothing worse than a parent’s anger when something happens to their children. This movie was a very disturbing movie to watch, but it was an eye opener to the things that could happen if you are empowered by anger and vengeance.
Most people that have watched this movie were disgusted and outraged of the graphic content. A few parents stated once the rape scene appeared, they shut the movie off and did not finish (momslikeme.com). Others said they just turned away or hit fast forward past the rape scene. It seems that in today’s world it is easier to just turn our heads to the violent acts that are bestowed upon a neighbor, rather than help. The film was based on a true history of the girl and what her parents did to avenge her.
Movies have a way to enlighten, thrill or impress people with the story and content, but when the stories are true, people seem to shun or ignore the movie. In a society the shows violence every day, whether by the evening news or local paper, why will people turn away to a movie that shows the graphic details of what is happening. My question to the readers is “What would you do?” Would you call the cops in hopes the legal system would convict the people, or would you avenge your daughter and take matters into your own hands?
I just watched this movie last weekend and I really liked it. It was very suspenseful and entertaining. But now I am looking at it in a different light now that I know it was based on a true story. I did not know that it was actually a real life tragedy for a family. But I would honestly say that I would try to avenge my daughter just the same as this family did. When you have the people there within your grasp who have harmed your child, there is no rational thinking at all, there is only action. And I will always watch every part of a movie because there is a reason that the part is being shown in the movie.
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