So crazy how Justine was so nerved by FGM prior to her trip and ended up being in a situation where she herself was an inch close to a FGM.
It was simple foreshadowing, as well as making sure the audience knew exactly what FGM entails before using it as a horror device later in the movie.
I think they adroitly imparted that knowledge in the classroom scene, with the characters learning what it involves. That prevents it from coming off as exposition or just an info dump.
Later when Justine's tied up and about to be mutilated, the scene is that much more disturbing because we'd just been given a graphic description of what it entails an hour ago. There are people who really don't know FGM exists, and there are plenty of people who know what it is in an abstract way, but don't know all the uncomfortable details.

Muslims rape their daughters. That is similar to FGM. They also teach their sons to toch the P-P.

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why did they said that muslims do FGM? i am muslim and i know whole muslim story, there is no like that bullsh*t tradition in islam. this is ignoramus african tribe tradition. aint a tradition of all african people! smh

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Not even close to the same thing and actually provides benefits, so stfu with your disgusting looking euro dick.

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Not really, I can't come up with a movie quickly buy the TV series "Sopranos" was noted for introducing story lines that went no where and left the viewer hanging. One of the worst one was the Russian special forces guy that they took in the woods to shoot.
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having done FGM myself in class as a presentation
Whoah!
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Well uh no..I knew at the point when she was penetrated what was to come but I didn't research so deep into this movie prior to viewing to know that was to come. And having done FGM myself in class as a presentation its not usually something that specific part of the world practices..as the other poster pointed out had it been in Africa or something yea I'd think not only are they about to be lunch but she's getting mutilated as well.

You know what IS bad writing? The fact that all this didn't factor in at the ending. Think about it, FGM was her main concern at the beginning, and here was the opportunity to use the media to bring attention to it. All she had to do is tell the truth. Rather she lied to further some other agenda. Disappointing.

Technically, the other 2 weren't virgins tho because they were lesbos but i see your point.

Maybe I missed something didn't the virgin go home free & every other gal died?
(** SPOILER! ** the trope also made it out alive)

No, the scene where shes "inspecting" the girls, the mutilation is a right of womanhood, the first 2 were not virgins, she was.
Props to Roth then, whatever one's feelings on Inferno are; rare is the horror film gutsy enough to invert the much hackneyed "virgin home free; every other gal dies" trope

No, the scene where shes "inspecting" the girls, the mutilation is a right of womanhood, the first 2 were not virgins, she was. whioch is why they were going to do it to her. the other 2 were already "women"

Maybe Justine was going to take over?
Woulda been a highly refreshing iota of originality in this otherwise genre reverent yet ho hum production

My take on it is that they were going to mutilate her because they wanted her in their tribe. The man native woman had a liking to Justine since she arrived. Maybe Justine was going to take over?

You're being sarcastic right?
The moment the Professor talked about FGM in class you honestly didn't know that wasn't going to come back?
IMO, that was horribly bad screenwriting/foreshadowing.
I also have a problem with the scene in the village. Not b/c it was scary or gross, but b/c it made NO sense & done just to provide "shock".
Think about it, we're told by the professor that FGM in South American tribes is considered a "right of passage" from girl to womanhood.
Why would the villagers show that respect to this girl?
She's either just food (as they put her & her friends in the same pen they kept the pigs), or she's their enemy. So why would they circumcise their food? Or show the same respect to their enemy that they do their own kind?
I think the main problem, IMO, with the film was that Roth DIDN'T understand the natives. He couldn't decide if he wanted them to be the victims or the crazy savages.
I was very much looking forward to this film. I was disappointed.

lol I love that defense. The implication being: it happened in Christian countries so Christians likely allow it to happen or perform FGM. As you said, it is still Muslims doing it. A woman was decapitated in Oklahoma a while back. Does that mean the U.S. allows or performs decapitations on women? No, because it was a Muslim who did it.
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People who do that are still Muslims and not Christians.

I was disappointed that the film wasn't set in Africa or the Muslim world where FGM is commonplace. Los Indios & Latin Americans in general don't do FGM.
But FGM is more commonplace in Christian countries in Africa than "Muslim" countries

I was disappointed that the film wasn't set in Africa or the Muslim world where FGM is commonplace. Los Indios & Latin Americans in general don't do FGM.