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Why is there a rape in Far Cry 3 and why is it different from the rape scene in Pulp Fiction?
About halfway through Far Cry 3 (which I’ll review this week), you rescue a character who, we are made to understand, has been raped by his captor. The victim has been imprisoned in a dingy basement just feet from a busy road; the sequence, which ends in the murder of the rapist, is an obvious allusion to the famous male rape-and-revenge scene in Pulp Fiction that gained a lot of its neo-Gothic horror from the fact that it took place in the back room of a store on a bustling Los Angeles street. As far as I know, this is the…