Rya Kihlstedt in Jaded (1996)

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Whenever the word rape is tossed into casual conversation, the image of a male forcing his physical will upon a female or upon a weak male comes to mind. Rarely, if ever, do musings on rape exclude males and feature females as the perpetrators, but such is the seldom-considered premise of Jaded (1996). A serious and at times grim dramatization of the institutional apathy confronted by a woman who is brutally sexually assaulted by two of her female acquaintances, Jaded raises unsettling questions of gender assumptions. Directed by Caryn Krooth, the film is more indictment than entertainment and will disturb even the most debauched film-goer. Jaded? I masturbated!