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Betrayal [VHS]

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This film is extremely important about our vision of women in our world, how women can become instruments or tools for the pleasure of some men who have authority. Here it is the situation of a woman who goes to a psychiatrist for help. This man uses the tremendous power he gets over her, due to the transference she experiences and that is part of the treatment and the guarantee that she may be cured, to force her into sex. This woman is utterly destroyed, or could be utterly destroyed if she did not find a couple of lawyers who are going to help her fight back, and she will win, even if the doctor in his appeal will manage to be exonerated from his crime. That is the second harsh lesson of this film : justice is not always fair and the poweful of this world always manage to get the upper hand. But the battle is enough for this woman to regain her own balance, her own sanity, her own hope that life is after all livable, in spite of that cruelty that can assail us so often.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan