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tures of aileetion legally considered a
matter of choice.
The first hour of Robert Young's
("The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez") film
"Extremities" is one excruciatingly
long attempted rape and a similar vio
lation of all things secret and personal.
Filmed in '80s "music video" color,
made glossy with the rapist's leather
and completely awash in (perhaps)
subconscious sadism, the whole first
hour is pornography for the socially
conscious.
The cinematographer and director
take no steps to desexualize the
attempted rape, not realizing the sex
ual implications of modern architec
ture, sexual mannerism and gesture,
and color. Filmmakers from Europe,
namely Jean-Luc Godard, long ago
learned how to manipulate the au
dience's sexual response towards or
away from arousal.
Young's attempted rape is sublimi
nally arousing, t hus revolting and quite
nearly unwatchable. Five minutes of
hints o! rape are enough to warrant
Farrah Fawcett Majors' vengeance in
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Photo courtesy of Atlantic Releasing Corp
Farrah Fawcett stars as Marjorie, a victim who strikes back at
her attacker, in "Extremities," based on the play by William
Mastrosimone.
This film does serve, however, to
resurrect Farrah Fawcett Majors, the
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the final hour. Filmmakers in America n()t recommend "Extremities." It is
and the makers oi tv movies oi me sioppy and, in its ignorance oi film's
week seem to work under the rule that nmvpr uhastlv
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you nave io snow one nour oi terror ior
every half hour of justice.
Rape is a personal crime. Women
know what it entails, live with the fear
of it daily, are not anesthetized to the
details of the crime. Men's basest,
impulses can only be aroused by such
scenes. A man who has rape in him will
not be put off by such a heartless dis
play of the atrocity and a man who is
not subject to the gender paranoia and
need to dominate that characterize
most rapists, can only feel a blooming
of frustrated male chivalry rise up in
him, or arousal through the snap, whirr
and leather crackle of this glossy page
ant of terror.
to burying him in the garden in lieu of
calling the police.
These scenes, although often stretch
ing the limits of reality and, at times,
slipping into morbidly humorous melo
drama, are well-performed by Diana
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Majors as the victimized and finally
nithless Marjorie is stunning, a ple
thora of failed options. She is con
stantly caught between striking back
and letting things lake their course,
inertia and momentum trap her in the
rapist's psychotic need for power. She
goes from tears of hurt, to tears of rage,
to utter violent loathing and back to
hurt, and always the audience is able to
discern the difference.
The final act of the film, which
breaks down neatly into such theatri
cal divisions the screenplay is writ
ten by the same man who wrote the
Broadway play, William Mastrosimone
is a microcosm of the judicial sys
tem. Marione incarcerates the raDist
The film doesn't enlighten and fre
quently courses along only on its own
sensationalism and the presence o
Majors. What isn't completely grue
some and inexcusable in "Extremi
ties" has been covered more than ade
quat ely by numerous made-for-TY movies
(a moving one with Lindsay Wagner
comes to mind). All in all, I can't think
of what kind of mood I'd have to be in to
witness such a web of cinematic mis
takes, mistakes that do not bore an
audience that could be laughed off
but mistakes which offend and
traumatize.
If the filmmakers just wanted every
one to talk about this movie, theyve
(James Russo) in the fireplace after won. If they wanted to comment on the
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