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Representation Of Women In The Night

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Another American combat film that represents sexual violence is Women in the Night in 1948. It tells a story about an international group of nurse women imprisoned and forced to be prostitutions by Nazis. This film does not only represent an Asian female character as a victim of sexual violence, but it also justifies these Asian character women as a murderer. In the film, it shows that an American nurse Claire Adams is only female nurse who never get raped, and Conolly-Smith states that:
Claire’s own near-rape at the hands of a drunken Japanese officer is prevented when she locks him into her bedroom, where he is killed by Li Ling in revenge for her own earlier violation, a plot twist that helps justify this act of murder. (Conolly-Smith 240).
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