E 40: Don't Mess With A Writer: A Review on "I Spit On Your Grave"

Gore movies are now becoming overrated and psycho thrillers are so 90's. Last night, my friend and I watched the movie "I Spit On Your Face" and it's a so-so movie but with a different effect on its audience (spoiler alert).
Jennifer Hills is a writer who went to a place far from everyone else. She rented a cabin all by herself where she can hear only the voice in her head so that she could write her book. Little did she know that a group of men whom she encountered on her way there were having dark schemes on her. Her supposedly solitary stay in the cabin suddenly became a nightmare that she never expected.
Leave all your prejudice aside as this psycho-thriller filled with sort of gore and violence takes you into a different side of the frame; it is a reverse-psycho thriller. At first, you'd see how much Jennifer suffered in the hands of men. Afterwards, it's pay back time. What's great in here is that she was able to avenge herself by doing everything to her victims as how they tortured her. Jennifer materializes karma and it is indeed triple in return.
What's different in this gore movie is that this time, we get to be at the side of the "killer". The first part of the film will totally overly superbly shock us and feel pity on the main character. The next part of the story is when we feel a little proud that she was able to get back on her feet. Unlike the usual teenagers we see in psycho-thrillers who run, fall, and scream as the killer approaches, the victims in this one are all men who we'll dismiss (either consciously or subconsciously) as people who deserve to be tortured and exterminated. The usual psycho-thriller movies could get us all scared and nervous, but this one got me smirking at the thrilling scenes because the "victims" deserve what they experience.
The weakness of the movie though is a good plot, which is a common illness to psycho-thrillers. It's like just watching one side of a story, then the table turns and that's it.

Still, I think it's an okay movie if one wants to feel different over a gore movie-- but still the offensive feeling is there. It's not really something big and artistic, it's plain drivel but it's entertaining in a sort of morbid way--or maybe it just happens to get in touch once again with my dark side which has been sleeping for three years now.
It crushes one's heart at first, and revives one back into some sort of "pleasurable torture scenes" but that's if you are into sadism (Don't get me wrong, I am not but it was just a little "fun"--not a perfect word to use but oh well-- to watch). A bad thing though is that it seems to endorse violence as a good pay back act but, nahh. It's a movie; it's pure entertainment. We still know what's right in real life (though let's admit that avenging oneself through sadism can really be fulfilling! Well, let's just consider it as something cathartic).
Let's just have one wholesome lesson from this movie: never mess with a writer; a writer can always plot a perfect revenge good enough to write a chapter in his or her life.