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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 28, 2019 2:52:26 GMT
Have someone watched Amazon’s Lorena about the very infamous case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbit? I liked how they took a tabloid story that was mostly treated as a joke at the time and presented it as a serious documentary about domestic violence. Although even when I was very young then I remembered it as a tragedy of an abused woman so it wasn’t exactly a revolutionary revisionist film but it actually admitted it.
I read a review on THR criticizing that it included John Bobbit giving his own version of the events but I think that’s actually very good because he is very obvious and it’s easy to see who is credible and who is not when we see both versions side by side. If he wasn’t there we would only have one version without the other guy inadvertently confirming it!
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Post by mllemass on Feb 28, 2019 7:35:04 GMT
It was such a weird story at the time. I remember the jokes about it and also how terrible it was. But my biggest memory of this comes from meeting someone at work named Lorena just after the Bobbitt incident occurred. She and I became close friends, and she told me that until Lorena Bobbitt made the news, people never seemed to know how to pronounce “Lorena” properly. And since then, people still comment on that infamous incident all those years ago when they meet her.
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