I SAW Sorry Baby, a really good film about a sexual assault that wasn’t the typical trauma story. Since it may soon release on HBO Max, which is available in Pakistan, I recommend you watch it; I promise I haven’t given too much away. The incident occurs between a graduate student and her thesis adviser and is not shown which makes it far more powerful than the often gratuitous violent assaults depicted on screen. The film is about Agnes, played by Eva Victor who directs the film too, and the struggles she faces in three years following the assault. She is a professor at the same college where the incident occurred and the film depicts, what Deadline called, “Agnes’ imperfect journey through the other side of trauma”.
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