Aspects of rape culture | Dogville: We were to meet in freedom
'I've chosen, Grace. I've chosen you...Tonight we free ourselves of Dogville!' i he says, as he begins to thrust his body on top of her. Grace (Nicole Kidman) seems motherly, comforting, but quietly undeterred in her position; she speaks quietly, but her words are sonorous when she womansplains[sic] ii that '[…]it would be so beautiful, but, from the point of view of our love, so completely wrong'. Being consent-illiterate, and having ignored her non-verbal cues thus far (she doesn't kiss back, does not react to his touch), he is now forced to see what she is saying. It cannot be ignored: ' We were to meet in freedom ' , she concludes. And he, reluctantly, stops. So, hey , freedom is somewhere and is not there . It is a place where people meet , and somewhere her in particular and Tom 'were to meet'. Lovers do not meet in unfree places: rapists and victims do. Not only does she theorise freedom as a place that is not there, and th...