It’s been days since I watched movie that tore my heart. This afternoon, I was sobbing because I get really in touch with the narrative. It’s about women and their vulnerabilities. It is a limited series on Netflix entitled “Unbelievable” and it literally is unbelievable. For those who doesn’t like spoilers, you can watch the series first and get back to read this after, because I’m gonna spoil so many parts of the movie. Without further ado, let’s talk about it.
It’s
started with a woman telling the cop that she’s been raped and annoyingly, she
had to tell the story to different people like so many times in the same day.
It’s a very brutal memory, and she’s forced to tell what happened over and over.
I almost cried watching the scenes. However, I managed to hold my tears. “I
just started.” I said to myself.
What
makes me furious is the fact that the detective wasn’t helpful at all, got no sympathy
for the victim, forced her to tell the story over and over, until he was sure
that she made that up. There wasn’t any rape according to him. The woman, of
course, couldn’t defend herself when she’s forced to accept that horrible idea,
and finally lying about what really happened.
Three
years after, at the other country, the same case happened. Luckily, this woman
got a detective who really think she was telling the truth, despite little evidence
of the suspect. The detective just felt that there’s a monster out there trying
to do the same thing to other women.
God
led her to the other detective in another country whom also having an identical
case. Then the two investigated the case together, helping one another finding
the clue about the identity of the monster, while the 1st woman I
told in the 2nd paragraph was accused of making false stories that she
was raped and got so much hatred because of it. Imagine living through a very traumatic
incident with no one got your back. It must be a very dark feeling inside.
I
hate it. I hate what a man can do to crack a woman’s life.
Turns
out, there really is a serial rapist. He sneaked into those women’s place late
at night, raped them for hours, took pictures of it, got a trophy like he was
winning something, and not feeling any remorse. He took something from
them which they could never get back. All of that is because one man.
I
was crushed when I saw the women testified in his trial. Hearing what they said
broke my heart. I couldn’t imagine how horrible life must be for them after the
attack. I acted like this because the movie is based from a true story. It’s
real.
Imagining those
women losing something they don’t want, it’s heart breaking. It’s unbelievable.
Dear
so many men out there in the world, you have the chance to overpower women in
so many ways. You have that in you. I just wish you would do it for the good
intentions. I know I can’t generalize that all men are the same. I
believe there are decent men who’ll curse the kind of act.
Watching
this kind of movies is like reading literature. You’re drown into their
perspectives and the good thing is that you can take something to learn after it
ends. You’ll find that you’re crying like a fool because you pity them or finding
yourself in the same situation as them, but that’s the part of learning into other’s
perspective. It’s very fun when you have other thing than just killing your
time after watching a movie. In fact, it’s relieving to be able to write this
down. What makes it even better is that
when you can talk and having a discussion about it. Believe me, it’s worth it.