They see themselves in a mirror, right? I bet a raped monkey suffers like a woman.įemale Classmate, angry and disbelieving: So a raped woman, raped monkey, same thing. Īdrien, rolling his eyes: Legally, I’m not sure ‘monkey rape’ exists.Ī: The monkey won’t turn anorexic and see a therapist. Justine: Who’d be so sick he’d rape an animal? Transcript provided below because, in a later segment of the movie, this conversation becomes incredibly disgusting, as Adrien is raped by Justine. Outside of being an very harmful conversation and obvious needling homophobia on the part of the classmate, this conversation continues onto Justine discussing how raping a monkey is akin to raping a woman, to which Adrien dismisses it as monkeys not having the depth of human emotion. Did wolves raise you? What do I care? Cuz I fuck monkeys or have AIDS? What the fuck. If a guy wants to fuck a monkey today, should he use a condom?Ī, upset: I’m eating, man! Don’t talk about fucking monkeys. Do you think a monkey can get AIDS today? If you treat a monkey in a zoo or African reserve, are you as careful as a doctor doing normal surgery?Īdrien: No clue. Male Classmate: Maybe not all animals, but monkeys.

The longest conversation he holds with someone that isn’t Justine or Alexia is with a random classmate that asks whether or not Adrien could accidentally give a monkey AIDS or acquire AIDS when taking care of them, and then jokes about him ‘fucking monkeys’.

He’s no longer Muslim, likely because he is gay.Īll of this gleaned from very small in-between conversations- Adrien spends more time talking about Justine and Alexia than about himself or his interests.

He comes from a homophobic Muslim family.Adrien is of Oufella’s race and nationality- Algerian-French.As Justine first experiences her horrific awakening to cannibalism and starts eating any and all meat around her, Adrien is kind, helpful- we get glimpses of the character he’s intended to be through smaller conversations, but, despite the fact that he’s arguably the deuteragonist, his character seems molded solely to what would best cause conflict for Justine’s coming-of-age. Justine is horrified to find that her roommate isn’t a girl as she’d requested, and he responds that, well, he’s gay and that’s the same difference to the school. The introduction of Adrien (Rabah Nait Oufella) is short, sweet, and everything the movie wants you to know and care about his character. Raw posits the suffering of its few male and female characters of color as either jokes or as negligible and necessary for the advancement of Justine’s characterization, which may be the most horrific part of the movie. In between the lines of what is otherwise a decent plot line about a girl figuring herself out, Raw gives way to a story revolving around the preying-upon of a gay Algerian man by a doe-eyed white French woman who’s just ‘figuring herself out’. Touted as the movie that blew Hannibal Lecter out of the cannibalism scene, Raw (2016) dir. Julia Ducournau is a coming-of-age story told through the main character Justine’s (Garance Marillier) awakening to her sudden craving for meat after a lifetime of vegetarianism. Content Warnings: rape, cannibalism, racism, corrective rape, beastiality.

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