Holiday

9/27/2019

**_Palpably tense and thematically complex, this is deeply uncomfortable viewing, with a graphic but wholly justified rape scene_** > _Women quickly learn that rape is a crime only in theory; in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men._ - Judith Lewis Herman; _Trauma and Recovery: the aftermath of violence - from domestic abuse to political terror_ (1992) > _The relationship is certainly abusive but I mean that's a greyscale. It's not like 'here's a healthy relatio__nship' and 'here's an abusive one'. It's not a healthy relationship, it's a relationship founded on an uneven power balance and that can never be good. He has too many things that she needs, not jus