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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The script was loosely based on the gang rape of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Araujo Cheryl Ann Araujo]], which occurred in 1983.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The script was loosely based on the gang rape of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Araujo Cheryl Ann Araujo]], which occurred in 1983. 1983 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with the trial of her attackers becoming one of the first trials to be televised live, stirring controversy over the ethics of televising trials, and of having Araujo's identity made public (and making her graphic testimony a centerpiece of the news coverage).
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* {{Blackmail}}: The other men threaten to tell everyone that the third attacker is gay if he doesn't rape Sarah.
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* MortonsFork: When Sarah's third attacker refuses to rape Sarah, his buddies threaten to tell everyone he is a homosexual unless he does. He reluctantly joins in the gang rape.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: A dark example. The third attacker only joins in the gang rape when his buddies threaten to tell everyone he is a homosexual if he doesn't. He proves otherwise by raping Sarah immediately afterwards.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: A dark example. The third attacker only joins in the gang rape when his buddies threaten to tell everyone he is a homosexual if he doesn't. He proves otherwise by raping Sarah immediately afterwards.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When the third attacker hesitates, his buddies hurl homophobic insults, saying he is "a fag" unless he rapes Sarah.
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* BigNo: Sarah screams this all throughout her gang rape.
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* GruntingOrgasm: All three of Sarah's attackers achieve this while raping her.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Non lovemaking example. Sarah is forced down against a pinball machine during the gang rape.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When a waitress in the bar sees Sarah's gang rape (and one of the men cheering sees the waitress and boasts "you're next!"), she promptly puts down a tray of glasses, grabs her coat and exits the bar.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Sarah's boyfriend could count, as his argument with Sarah led to her going to the bar where she would be raped.
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* BlamingTheVictim: A major source of drama is that many people believe Sarah deserved to be gang-raped in a crowded bar, both because of her past involving drugs and because shortly prior to the rape, she was wearing revealing clothes, had been drinking and danced provocatively with one of her rapists (she also had a boyfriend at the time). Sarah's lawyer Kathryn is initially reluctant to pursue stronger convictions against the rapists or let Sarah testify, partly because her past and behavior may cause the jury to blame her or otherwise see her as unsympathetic. Kathryn later regrets this and the narrative itself takes the view that [[DeconstructedTrope Sarah was blameless for the horrific violence inflicted on her]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Sarah's boyfriend could count as one, asking her when she'll "get over this" after she dismisses his advances, saying that "this is getting ''boring''". Also, one of their spats is what led Sarah to attend at the bar where she would be eventually raped. Exaggerated with the guy with the scorpion tattoo who cheered the rapists on and then gloated after running into and recognizing Sarah on how he got away with this.
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* {{Jerkass}}: {{Jerkass}}:
** Sarah'sboyfriend could count as one, boyfriend, especially because of his utter lack of empathy for her trauma, including asking her when she'll "get over this" after she dismisses his advances, saying that "this is getting ''boring''". Also, one of their spats is what led Sarah to attend at the bar where she would be eventually raped.
** Exaggerated with the guy with the scorpion tattoo who cheered the rapistson and on, then gloated after running into and recognizing Sarah on how he got away with this.
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** Exaggerated with the guy with the scorpion tattoo who cheered the rapists
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* RapeAsDrama: It was the first Hollywood film to properly deal with rape as the main theme.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Also the first major Hollywood film to treat rape for exactly what it is and that is an awful and disgusting crime.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Also the first major Hollywood film to treat rape for exactly what it is and that is an awful and disgusting crime.
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* RapeAsDrama: It was the first Hollywood film to properly deal with rape as the main theme.
theme. After being gang-raped at a bar and having other patrons not only fail to help but ''cheer her rapists on'', Sarah is left traumatized and demands justice. Her lawyer Kathryn fights to get convictions for her.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil:Also It was one of the first major Hollywood film films to treat rape for exactly what it is and that is an as the awful and disgusting crime.crime it is; both the rapists and the onlookers who failed to intervene and/or cheered the rapists on are portrayed as equally unsympathetic and culpable, while Sarah is portrayed as flawed yet completely sympathetic when it comes to the rape.
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