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Gone Girls recycling of rape myths is a disgusting distortion

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False allegations of rape and domestic violence are extremely rare. Ben Affleck should know better

Like most people, I expect you go to the movies to be entertained. You might choose an action movie, with lots of special effects, or a dark thriller which keeps you on the edge of your seat. Right now you might choose Gone Girl, this autumns much-hyped mystery about the frantic search for a woman called Amy Dunne. Rosamund Pike plays the girl of the title actually a thirtysomething wife who has disappeared from her middle-class home in Missouri amid signs of a struggle.

Pike is English, and I cant help wondering whether she or her co-star, Ben Affleck, is aware of a ground-breaking piece of research published last year by Britains then director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer. Im actually tempted to send a copy to both of them, and everyone else involved in this travesty of a movie. Affleck in particular, with his left-of-centre politics, should know better; he directed and starred in Argo, a movie so keen to be fair-minded that it began with a potted history of Iranian-American relations.

Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 2 days ago.

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