| &rarr 1 Comment |Posted by Tona |Posted On: February 5th, 2010 |
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I have just added screen captures of a documentary Anastasia was part of in 2006 to the gallery. Watching the whole thing was rather strange. The British channel SKY produced three 40 minute documentary’s. The whole series is called “Super fakes”. The one Anastasia is in is called: “The Woman Who Cried Rape”. The episode starts with hard facts: It is estimated that 130,000 women are raped in the UK every year. False rape cases are very rare. Last year, only nine women were charged for making false rape allegations. This film follows one of those rare cases. The stoy of Merete Underwood is told. Unhappy in her marriage she decides to abandon her husband of two years and young son one evening. At the pub she tells her husband she is going to the bathroom one last time before leaving together but she takes her cigarettes and goes out for a smoke instead. Toby Underwood won’t see his wife for another sixteen hours. Merete is a havy drinker, she’s disappeared before but when she’s still not home by five a.m. the next day Toby calls the police. With the police investigating her claims Merete’s story begins to fall apart. She is eventually charged with perverting the course of justice and wasting police time. Merete Underwood served half of her 12 month sentence in jail. She divorced her husband and returned to her native Norway. The documentary features interview clips with the real life Merete Underwood as well as reconstructions of what she claims happened. In these reconstructions Anastasia plays Underwood. |
| E. Steven Berkimer |
| &rarr Feb 05, 10 at 3:39 pm |
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The episode starts with hard facts: It is estimated that 130,000 women are raped in the UK every year. False rape cases are very rare. Last year, only nine women were charged for making false rape allegations. This film follows one of those rare cases. I have to take exception to this. The hypocrisy of the statement was surely lost on someone involved with making the documentary. This is playing fast and loose with the numbers and making one problem seem larger than it likely is, and the other is being minimized. doc•u•men•ta•ry (d k y -m n t -r ) n. pl. doc•u•men•ta•ries A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration. Notice the highlighted parts, then go back to the very top of this comment, and see if that fits the definition. What it boils down to, is there were more than 9 FRA’s. I would recommend reading studies done by Kanin, McDowell, Times of India and the Daphne II project by the EU, for more on FRA’s. Thank you for your time. |

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