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Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

a_baron On the face of it, this is a disturbing, brilliant documentary that should rate ten out of ten, but people who have studied the subject matter will see it for what it is: propaganda for proper geese. The bedrock of "The Hunting Ground" is contrived statistics and plausible liars. Late in the film is an appearance from Barack Obama. On January 22, 2014, the President told the press it was estimated that one in five women had been sexually assaulted during their time at college, although he didn't say estimated by whom. Three years later, he sent his eldest daughter to Harvard. Would he really have done so had he believed that rubbish? Harvard alumnus Kamilah Willingham appears herein, implying that she was drugged before she was sexually assaulted by the (unnamed) Brandon Winston. She didn't mention the cocaine that she brought out after a night of hard partying. Cocaine can cause hallucinations without alcohol, and let's not talk about lowering inhibitions. She ended up putting this poor kid through four years of Hell and nearly trashing his career before it began.Another Winston falsely accused herein is Jameis Winston, who was said to have raped Erika Kinsman. She too implies she was drugged. In reality, hers was a case of instant regret sex. We are told that Winston was protected by the establishment because he was a top college football player. Florida is the state where young black men are fined by the police if they wear their trousers an inch too low, so the suggestion that white cops would protect a black athlete who'd violated a young white woman is too stupid to comment on. The hostility Kinsman received from other students - female as well as male - is because they knew she was lying.Male feminist David Lisak is brought in to give the film an air of academic credibility. He endorses both the 2% claim for false reports and the absurd 1987 Koss "study" claiming that since then the statistics have been extremely consistent. Koss has been debunked numerous times; the loaded questions in her so-called survey don't even include a direct: Has a man ever forced himself upon you when you told him emphatically "No!"Other contributors include Annie Clark, an athlete with cross-country running and soccer on her sporting CV - she was, she says, raped outside in a quite brutal manner. She didn't tell anybody for a very long time - she didn't know how to report a rape. How dumb are these college girls? Rape is a felony. If it happens to you, you need to dial 911, on campus or anywhere else.Andrea Pino's account is almost as unconvincing as Clark's; she was a virgin, she said, and didn't want to admit it had happened. Or maybe she didn't want to admit she had lost her virginity in sordid circumstances? And so it goes on. Is there really a problem with rape on campus? In recent years, with the single spectacular exception of the Vanderbilt case, every highly publicised campus rape has been a hoax. Furthermore, we are asked to believe that university administrators - many of them women - are complicit in this massive cover-up of the sexual violation of the cream of American youth. Maybe they know something the public doesn't.Male so-called survivors are dragged in, they appear to be homosexuals, but even if they aren't, their presence has an obvious reason, to garner much needed male support for the continued attack on due process. The attention-seeking Mattress Girl puts in an appearance, but not the clearly deranged Landen Gambill. No one should be deceived by the tears displayed in or the rhetoric of this film. There are better ways of tackling sexual assault on campus and everywhere else without eroding due process. One way is to teach young women to take responsibility for their own actions by not drinking themselves senseless and getting into cars with men they don't know. Apart from common sense, new technology can play a major part in both holding rapists to account and preventing them raping women in the first place. These though are beyond the scope of this review, and way beyond the scope of "The Hunting Ground".

kacihearts19 http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1-in-5- college-study-raped_n_7293068.htmlI've read 40-50 reviews that state the statistics in this documentary are wrong. Please go to the link I provided above. Huffington Post released an article a few weeks after Hunting Grounds premiered stating the statistics were "inflate". Well, a few months later they had to do this follow up article because low and behold, the statistics WERE (& are) CORRECT. Im glad this documentary is getting people to talk about rape & sexual assault. I was raped by my brothers best friend when I was 13 & he was 18. When i reported it to the police their first question was "What did you do to turn him on?"...Sadly, I am now 28 & if I was to ever get raped again I wouldn't report it. The police treating me like it was my fault was like getting raped all over again. I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy... The police wouldn't even talk about charging him with statutory rape, like I said I was 13 years old and he was 2 weeks away from his 19th birthday, so even if I had been okay and wanted to have sex I wasn't old enough to consent. Legally it was rape no matter what. IM SO GLAD, this doc sheds light on a problem that desperately needs to be fixed.

Tess Julia Horrifying and yet, not surprising. My own experience is still unfolding, but it concerns my daughter and a public elementary school. I am preparing to file a civil suit against them. The worst and most troubling story to me was about Florida State University and J. Winston a.k.a. rapist. All the stories were just awful, but this one stands out because she went straight to the hospital and had a rape kit done! This was an open and shut case, but no one, all the way up the chain, in and out of the school did a thing. In my book, they are all as guilty as him, and one day they will stand in judgment before God, and get what they deserve.

DareDevilKid Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 4.7/5 stars"The Hunting Ground" is one of ace documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick's (also behind the exceptionally shocking "The Invisible War") strongest works yet, with a powerful message that emphatically trumps minor technical deficiencies. It's a very important film to see for parents, students, faculties, and anyone else involved with academia. The documentary is a stark piece of survivors' advocacy and qualifies as activist filmmaking, so more power to it. You can read all the statistics you want, but there's no substitute for bearing visual witness - especially in such overwhelming numbers.This is a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on the students and their families. Weaving together archive footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several university assault survivors as they attempt to pursue - despite incredible pushback, harassment, and traumatic noncooperation - both their education and justice.Dick's purpose is clear - he's unapologetically not concerned about being fair to both sides. But is that such a problem when no one has been fair to the victims in question? This is an unnerving expose of the proliferation of rape on college campuses across America, and the whole affair will make parents fear for the safety of their daughters (and in some cases, sons), and those whose kids have fortunately remained untouched by the decadence, would feel ashamed at the plight of other innocents affected by the blatant collusion and disregard displayed by the powers that could have easily done the right thing. It's not the numbers here you'll remember, but the stories - a montage of students relating how they called their parents, post-rape, is the saddest thing you'll see on screen this year. When and where your frustration and anger boil over while watching "The Hunting Ground" is an individual experience; one that will be different for everyone who sees it. But if you're not disgusted by the institutional apathy and unscrupulousness revealed in "The Hunting Ground", you may actually be a rapist or molester yourself.