Rape Is No Joke

So, here's the movie I was talking about in class today.

Annie is a shy 14-year-old who strikes up an increasingly intimate online friendship with “Charlie," who claims he is 16, later on admitting to being in his mid-20s. Later on in the film, “Charlie” takes a plane to visit Annie when she later discovers that he’s actually in his mid-30s. He takes her back to his hotel room and sweet talks the terrified but mesmerized girl into bed. When Annie's parents discover what has happened to Annie, their coziness is shattered. Rape charges are filed (Annie, in deep denial, at first denies she was raped) and the FBI conducts a manhunt for “Charlie,” who has a long list of previous victims. 

Also, Annie’s dad is an ad executive who specializes in risky clothing campaigns, he somehow blames himself because he felt as if he threw his daughter in this world where she felt that she needed to look a certain way and have to have things like Victoria's Secret lingerie on. 

The story line is different in comparison to the book Speak but the concept of rape is the same. Annie has always been inside this bubble created by her conservative parents, thus giving her the desire to wanting to branch out and take things from the strings for a chance. After having sex with "Charlie," she is feeling differently and is acting weird around her friends. Her parents and therapist have to literally shake it out of her the idea and reality that she had been raped. After reading the book, I was able to connect Annie because the feelings and process of being raped is hard to settle.