TrueJoshNight
Truly Dreadful Film
Tacticalin
An absolute waste of money
FrogGlace
In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
johnbrookswriting
"The Hunting Ground" is a documentary about the widespread incidence of sexual assault on US college campuses which I, especially as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, found very moving as well as very enlightening.It shows how power differentials, between victims/survivors and school administrations, and a drive by administrations to preserve a school's image and reputation if at all possible, combine to enable sexual assault on college campuses nationwide.And it's about how the determination of two victims/survivors to change things for the better led to substantial intervention by the federal government to compel schools to begin taking the rights and needs of campus sexual assault victims/survivors seriously.Highly recommended.
AdamCatalyst
This is, without a doubt, one of the most irresponsible documentaries ever made. The so-called experts who are largely referenced could be considered naive at best, and outright discredited at worst. David Lisak is perhaps the most irresponsible inclusion in this film, as his discredited theories about rapists have become commonly held beliefs which have likely endangered numerous women. The filmmakers abuse statistics in a reckless manner, padding rape statistics by including sexual assault offenses such as attempting to hold a person's hand on a date as if they were one and the same as rape. Even with these padded statistics using long term accrued numbers, quick calculator work will tell you that the filmmakers are referring to a problem with an estimated victimization rate of one per thousands of students. Why couldn't they have found statistics to support their thesis about a campus rape "epidemic"? Why use statistics that undermine their own argument? The entire pretense of the film is horrifyingly flawed... young women are twice as likely to be raped or sexually assaulted off-campus as they are on campus. Like most crimes, people too poor to attend college are at significantly higher risk. The worst sin this movie commits is choosing to focus on subjects who outright lie to the camera. How are we to take this "epidemic" seriously, if it has been well documented that one of the main subjects in the film is a well known false accuser? The film is a long series of unsubstantiated personal anecdotes, and demonstrably false generalizations. Let me make something clear. Rape is a serious issue. But this terrible advocacy piece will endanger more potential victims with false information, and will be used as ammunition by rape denialists, with its terrible excuse for research and substantial screen time treating a false accusation as real.
Sparrowhawk
This is an excellent documentary on a very disturbing topic. How disturbing? Well, read the other reviews. The majority of them are by Men's Rights guys waving the red herring flag of ONE case mentioned in the movie. It's the only thing they've got to try and discredit this film. Pretty sad that a bunch of grown men feel they have to crowd onto this site and post sad little rants, clutching their stones because OMG WOMINZ MITE GET RIGHTZ!!!!! Don't pay any attention to them. This is an important film that should be seen by as many people as possible, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE. You're better than those panicked little toddlers.
dcarsonhagy
This will probably be the longest review of a movie I will ever write. There have been a very few documentaries that made me so mad I could not go to sleep. "The Hunting Ground" is one of them. It is a documentary made by two female students who were both raped in their freshman year at colleges. It demonstrated very well how the majority of students who are raped are labeled the "bad guy." It also demonstrates that the MAJORITY of universities will simply crucify a female if she tries to allege rape by one of their golden boys, i.e. the athlete. I'll get to that aspect in much more detail in just a minute. The longer I watched, the madder I became. What really floored me is the majority of universities who have the WORST reputation for this disgusting behavior come from the IVY LEAGUE. Harvard and Dartmouth are two examples. I went through the other reviews because I wanted to gauge what people thought about this type of behavior which has apparently been going on for a while and in most cases is encouraged by local fraternities. A reviewer who called himself Unclegerald-2004 labeled this documentary a "feminist marketing tool," and gave it 1 star. Scott-840-526147 decried "political trash," and gave it 1 star. UFLawGrad1989 heavily bashed the two girls involved (especially with regard to the Jameis Winston case) because they alleged things they couldn't possibly prove by a preponderance of the evidence. He gave it 2 stars. Overall, it would seem the majority of MALES, did not care for this.When you can prove to me ANY college or university that allows a fraternity to stand outside a women's dorm shouting, "No means Yes; Yes means anal" and does NOTHING about this behavior has the best interest of females at heart, you're full of crap. I will not go into the evidence about Jameis Winston except to say to the UFLawGrad, I'm sorry you're now probably working at Denny's.This should be REQUIRED viewing for any female. I encourage parents to sit down with their daughters AND sons, watch this, and then have a nice long discussion. It may save someone an awful lot of pain. This film is not rated and contains adult language. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
