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| Raw Deal: A Question of Consent | 
 enlarge | Director: Billy Corben
Actor: Lisa Gier King; Tony Marzullo
Studio: rakontur
Category: DVD
Buy New: $24.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 33363
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Unknown)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 99
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 837101264495
EAN: 0837101264495
ASIN: B000LC4620
Release Date: November 28, 2006
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Product Description
Raw Deal is one of the most exposing and controversial documentaries about rape and fraternity life today. Billy Corben's remarkable expose on the contested rape of 27-year-old Lisa Gier King in Gainesville, Florida, is sure to provoke heated discussions everywhere about rape, women's rights, and male privilege. On Friday, February 26, 1999, Delta Chi frat brothers at the University of Florida held a party at their fraternity house and hired exotic dancer Lisa Gier King to perform. The following morning, a half-naked and distraught King ran from the house, claiming that Michael Yarhaus had raper her. Her most startling allegation was that frat brother Tony Marzullo had videotaped the crime. Two days later, King herself was arrested for filing a false police report after authorities claimed the rape showed "clearly willing and consensual sex." The community was stunned by King's arrest after it was discovered that the videotape showed Marzullo himself repeatedly addressing the camera to gleefully describe that what he was witnessing was a rape. Under pressure from the media and Campus NOW to charge the frat brothers with rape, State Attorney Rod Smith arrogantly responded by making the tape available to the public so people could "make up their own minds." Filmmaker Billy Corben takes Smith's challenge and presents the scandalizing, sexually explicit footage alongside interviews of participants involved with the case to conduct an investigation the police never did. The result is a shocking insight on fraternity life and the politically constructed nature of "the truth."
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Watch this!! March 31, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a carefully constructed account of a contested event which some people see as rape and some people do not. What is interesting is that there are two videos showing the event and yet still, opposed interpretations are possible. It shows how foolish is the idea that if we could only see something then we would know what really happened. We would, but our ideas of what really happened would not be the same as anyone else's. By the way, I think it was rape.
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