Compliance

there are many who will watch this film and start to feel horrible about things they've done to others when they were instructed to 'help'. this film is a template for authority cravers. it displays the subservience that is amplified by 'being-in-trouble-and-wanting-to-get-outta-dutch'. not everyone is as obvious as the manager sandra , (who made me want to puke with her unquestioning subservience) but rest assured, some of you who are struggling to find yourself will be HURT THE MOST by people who think they are 'helping' you (especially those who believe in 'tough love' and/or 'scaring-them-for-their-own-good'). in many instances, 'tough love' techniques have been devised by halfwits or sadomasochists. if you are clever enough, you could guild the halfwits into their own selfdestruction. you dont have to take the defeatist stance of 'oh, they'll just get replaced by some other moron'. i have heard of a book called 'pathological altruism', here is a good example. we will all surely drown in each others crap if we as individuals or groups feel enititled to have some authority-figure do our thinking for us.becky being stripped, searched and ultimately raped is more than just a true story. you can also use it as a metaphor for how this happens to people on psychological/spiritual levels. putting people in tough situations can result in psychosomatic manifestations that will send them to the hospital......learn how to respect the PERSONAL SPACE of others, physically, socially, psychologically, spiritually, etc. beware of people who appear to want to drive you nuts, sometimes they ARE to some extent.........they try to take you over an emotional threshold in hopes that you will crash afterwards so that you will "calm down", especially if it leads to an incident where you have to take 'meds', cuz after all isn't 'medicine' good for you??? these people are not your friends, they are no longer 'family' if they try this. they do such things because they are inferior at helping, worthless. if this is their way of 'helping'............ you will be hurt the MOST by those who try to 'help you'.clearly, everyone who took part in the events lacks a crucial level of intelligence. now, back to everyday life. who are the 'pillars' of your community, family, church? would you like to know that some of them belong to elitistic secret societies? some of those people are dumb, newby schills, others are experts at manipulation who will use their knowledge of your weaknesses (as well as your 'secret sins' that more people know about than you REALIZE). dont let yourself be extorted into hurting others (by 'helping them'). come clean, or at least be prepared to come clean when you dont 'follow orders'. you might save someone's soul (as well as your own). people who crave authority will do so feverishly when they are in trouble and have to 'make good' to get out of dutch. be prepared to defend yourself against them. if you are quick enough to spot who is manipulating the halfwits, wait before........... dont just lash out with emotions.(9-17-14 the speed-of-life conspiracy is such that often when people are "trying-to-help" they are doing what they feel is their 'best' (read: only) option. their lack of flexibility and resourcefulness is a poor excuse for not respecting the personal space of others. I hope this movie leads to some people having the strength to become a happy-hermit..............finding solitude in one's self and regarding human existence as something unfortunate whilst understanding that you could find some opportunities for enjoyment in this trap that engulfs us all. never place absolute trust in ANYONE. doing so gives birth to personal demons that will crush your ability to reason/think. don't be surprised to find out that 'the good people' spend their lives being morally extorted into treating the have-nots poorly, ..........by members of elitistic secret societies. middle class 'nazis'. the 'good people' tell themselves that they have no other choice. the grass isn't greener on the other side, it might APPEAR to be..............for a little while................ I for one, am tired of people trying to scare-me-for-my-own-good. you aren't scaring me, you're pissing me off.they will get you to trust someone............this trust will be used as a weapon in a group gathering. you will become unsettled in a way that is not possible had you NOT trusted the person they appointed to be one they wanted you to trust. sometimes it will be someone who doesn't know what the plan is. they just need you to trust or CARE about the person whom will be the one that they use as a weapon against you. be a happy hermit.

Having heard about this instance on national news, I could not understand HOW this could happen in the real world. It was disturbing to watch it play out here. The actors honestly surprised me at how well they acted - not just because I expected them to be inexperienced, but because these are some pretty difficult roles to play.Some of the roles I felt were nailed - not all in order...Ann Dowd who just brought it for the role of the manager at the restaurant who was being duped. She was believable in an unbelievable role. To play this part effectively, she HAD to bring a tinge of low-intelligence to the persona. Not STUPID - but maybe just below average. Also, she had to be a person who easily fell into the follower role, but also was able to give orders and be followed. She also had to make us believe that she was able to have compartments in her mind that let her leave her fiance alone with a naked young girl while she dealt with the "stress" of the fast food manager's job. Even at the end, in the awkward scene at the end of the movie where she is being SHOWN the footage that directly contradicts what she said, she has a nervous laugh as she seems to recognize that she is wrong - but is forcefully pushing it back down in her mind so that she can keep believing things the way she has convinced herself that they were. It is unsettling to watch. She just nails it.Next up is Dreama Walker who plays the victim - if you will. I don't feel like the director gave her enough of a chance to make us believe her as well as we should. There is ONE time in the movie where I felt like I was given an answer, but it really needed to have been reinforced more. When she is asked why she didn't just leave... she said something like "I knew it was going to happen anyway" or "I knew they were going to do it anyway..." there is a resignation and a feeling that she might have been someone who had been abused before - or someone who didn't have enough self-respect to stand up and stop it because she didn't think enough of herself to believe that she was able to stop it. Someone who life had already beaten down enough that she had quit fighting a long time ago and just rolled with the flow. Maybe someone who daddy or older brother had been to the bedroom at night - SOMETHING that made her not fight back like most of believe that we would have done.I also REALLY enjoyed Phillip Ettinger who plays Kevin. He is the only one with a sense of decency and while he doesn't stop things, he also doesn't see them as a way to take advantage of a lurid situation to get his jollies at "Becky's" expense. He is also the one who is smart enough to dial *69 (of all things) to get the phone number for police. He came across as believable to me because he's a young kid, who isn't going to buck authority, but is willing to try to do the right thing when the opportunity arises.Ashley Atkinson did a good solid job as the assistant who is going along with the flow, but also trying to keep a sense of reasonableness to it. She isn't stand-out memorable to me, but that was kind of her job - NOT TO stand out. She was supposed to fill in a lot of things that kept us from asking too many questions.The director Craig Zobel did a masterful job of making the nude scenes uncomfortable without being gratuitous. The scene where Becky ends up doing the worst things of all with fiance Van - is intense - but perhaps he left a little on the cutting room floor. I felt like we could have seen a little more physicality from Van (not more visuals, but more movement - such as the water in the sink, barely moving) and more of Van reacting to what was happening to him. However, actor Bill Camp does an incredible job with his facial expressions during all of the scenes. You can almost FEEL him trying to resist, but eventually giving in to what must be a fantasy come true for a man his age and suddenly given God-like power over a pretty, young woman.After reading the details of this story elsewhere, I do think that they took quite a few liberties with the film. It would have taken a lot more effort to explain some of what happened, so I think that cutting that scene short was probably wise. We would have less sympathy for "Becky" if everything that happened had been shown.It still boggles the mind that this COULD happen, and even more so - as the detective bursts out when he discovers that there are more of these cases. It is hard to believe it!I give this a solid four out of five stars for great acting and thought provoking story.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities"