Thread: Consent
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Old 22-01-2007, 01:57 PM #4
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I watched it, interesting stuff.

I to thought he was innocent, especially with the way the program makers showed her reacting afterwards espcially with her boss, and I kinda think the show wanted the viewer to think he was innocent.

In any event, I think if the jury had come back with a guilty verdict, they would have just shown that he was actually innocent (eg instead of the final scene being him raping her we would instead have seen her consenting to the sex). There was nothing to stop the program makers doing this and as the point of the show was to challenge our thinking, I think they would have showed the "truth" to be the opposite of whatever the jury decided.

Still, it was an interesting enough show.
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