1950 · noir · assault · trauma
Outrage
Directed by Ida Lupino1h 15m1950
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
Our read: Outrage (1950) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded noir · assault · trauma entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme noir / assault, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
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