How did they know she was a virgin?
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berichtausinterzone — 11 years ago(January 08, 2015 06:30 PM)
What is amazing to me is Liam Neeson's impeccable timing maybe 30 seconds too late and she would definitely NOT be a virgin. Lmao.
Liam Neeson's timing is necessary for the (male) viewer to be emotionally invested in Neeson's/Bryan's mission.
Had he arrived later, his daughter would've been "damaged goods" -
that's also why the movie had to establish in the auction scene that she was still a virgin.
Otherwise many viewers wouldnt be able to empathize with the father anymore in wanting to save the daughter.
Could be interesting for a psychoanalytical interpretation:
(this is for FUN; I just like movies and theories!)
The father wants his daughter to stay "daddy's little girl".
This wish/image could be signified in her running like an actual 5 year old.
The father feels emasculated;the stepather's present is bigger than his; he's retired, and he might loose his daugthers affections to his replacement, the stepfather, the horse, or eventually a guy.
He can't let her grow up; since discovering and developing their sexuality is a way for adolescents do detach themselves from their parents, her sexuality is the biggest danger.
The very first (cute) guy we see the daughter talking to is actually an evil traficker.
Basically the plot is a paranoic oedipal (well, elektra-ish?) dad's nightmare
and
fantasy.
The father's mission is actually not to save his daughter, but to save his daughter's
virginity
.
Which is subconsciously understood by the audience, hence the multiude of posts by guys on the legitimacy of her virginity. -
aabbcc118 — 13 years ago(June 01, 2012 08:14 PM)
I think on the black market though, if they're selling someone as a 'pure virgin', most likely they do still have the hymen intact (since that's like a certificate of authenticity), which means they're harder to find since many virgins either don't have or lose their hymen, and hence more sought after and more expensive. even if you were rich, would you spend 100's of thousands of dollars on a maybe-virgin? of course not. you'd want proof that it was the real deal. so if there are virgins with no hymens, they probably can't sell them as virgins, but can still sell them as top quality.
the scene was put into the movie more to relieve the audience in the fact that she wasn't sold to anyone for sex yet. obviously her friend wasn't a virgin since they sold her off to the lower class whore houses, the only place they could make money off of loosey goosey. (see kids, sex does kill! if you would have waited, liam would have saved you from certain doom!) -
frumwannabe — 13 years ago(June 18, 2012 11:53 AM)
It's not cool to make fun of somebody for asking a question. Each person has to learn about sex; we're not born with the knowledge.
Anybody can examine a woman to see if she is a virgin; doesn't have to be a doctor. Since Kim is an innocent girl, they would also have been able to see her terror and get answers to their questions. The gangsters need to have good people skills in order to take advantage of others. -
P-K-One — 13 years ago(December 25, 2012 11:39 AM)
There is a piece of skin, about 2 inches into the vagina. It tears during the first intercourse (that's what's causing the bleeding). Sometimes the tear is small and there is almost no blood, sometimes it tears during sport without sex or when the girl has a very strong period. In those cases, when it tore earlier, there is no way to tell if she is a virgin.
However, if the skin is intact, you can tell by quite simply looking into the vagina or carefully probing her with a finger. -
DjfunkmasterG — 13 years ago(December 29, 2012 05:45 AM)
I am willing to bet somewhere in the group they have the girls examined. After seeing this movie I was shocked to learn at the lengths these type of scum go to to make oney off selling and trading women. They employee doctors, gynos, etc. They drug the girsl they get a physical and like in th emovie if they are found to be pure they are resold to the highest bidder who after deflowering them either kills them or trades them off to another sex slave group who prostitues them for money and a share is kicked back to the original purchaser.
"Deadlands 2: Trapped"
http://www.imdb.com/board/11103262/