The Killer Inside Me, Jessica Alba's film has aroused much controversy.
Such is the harshness of some of the scenes in the film directed by Michael Winterbottom that not even the protagonist herself could bear them and she left the Sundance Festival screening room where the film was presented.
As reported by the Magazine, the scene in question is in which the character is played by Alba. It is a fragment in which the male protagonist, Casey Affleck, puts on gloves to whip and slap Alba repeatedly, leaving her face literally made into a painting. Some shots that the beautiful actress could not bear and that led her to leave the cinema, as did several members of the public.
These scenes have been described as sadomasochistic by the local media, which define them as brutal, extremely violent, and unbearable. In fact, after the screening, Winterbottom was scolded by the public who did not understand why it was to show such a quantity of gratuitous violence towards women in the course of history.
In his defense, the filmmaker, author of other risque films such as Nine Songs (Nine Songs) or I Want You, invoked respect for the spirit of the work on which the film is based, a novel written in 1952 by Jim Thompson. "It's not about the real world, it's kind of a parallel version. Also, while there's obviously a lot of violence directed at women, there's a lot of tenderness," Winterbottom said.
