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| A female soldier with a stern look in her face makes up this sparse poster for Kirby Dick's The Invisible War |
The American military has a colossal problem with rapes inside its institutions, which are not addressed appropriately.
The Invisible War is written and directed by great Arizonian filmmaker Kirby Dick (Men Who Are Men (1981)), with additional writing by Douglas Blush (The S Word (2017, documentary)) and Amy Ziering (The Hunting Ground (2015, documentary)).
Strongly focused on the many victims of rape in the US military, The Invisible War is a truly horrible experience. Strong subjects show how idealistic young women may suffer hard fates in the officer-dictated system of hush hush and male privilege. Male victims and the perpetrators are almost completely missing.
The Invisible War is an instructive, activist documentary, which managed to inspire a real legislative change for the benefit of millions of privates after it.
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 450k $
Box office: 71k $
= Box office disaster (returned 0.15 times its cost)
[The Invisible War premiered 20 January (Sundance Film Festival) and runs 97 minutes. The film opened #55 to a 16k $ first weekend in 4 theaters in North America, where it did not achieve a higher rank although it widened to 7 theaters, grossing 71k $. The film did not get general releases in other markets. It was nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, lost to Searching for Sugar Man. The film also won an Independent Spirit award and a National Board of Review award, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave it a 3/4 star review, translating to a notch under this one. It inspired changes in the American defense in how it deals with rape charges. Dick returned with The Hunting Ground (2015, documentary). The Invisible War is certified fresh at 99 % with an 8.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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