brianna-99646 When reading the reviews for this film, a lot of the problems our society is facing today become obvious. There is a lot of victim shaming and people citing these girls as liars or attention whores. This could not be further from the truth. To dismiss these women for having the courage to say what happened to them is despicable. Rape culture is alive and well in this country, and there is no excuse for it. Victims should not be asked what they were wearing or what they had to drink. How is any of this relevant to the fact that they were assaulted? Anyone who points the finger at a victim is deplorable. Watch this movie and stand with these women. They deserve our support.

DareDevilKid Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 4.7/5 stars"The Hunting Ground" is one of ace documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick's (also behind the exceptionally shocking "The Invisible War") strongest works yet, with a powerful message that emphatically trumps minor technical deficiencies. It's a very important film to see for parents, students, faculties, and anyone else involved with academia. The documentary is a stark piece of survivors' advocacy and qualifies as activist filmmaking, so more power to it. You can read all the statistics you want, but there's no substitute for bearing visual witness - especially in such overwhelming numbers.This is a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on the students and their families. Weaving together archive footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several university assault survivors as they attempt to pursue - despite incredible pushback, harassment, and traumatic noncooperation - both their education and justice.Dick's purpose is clear - he's unapologetically not concerned about being fair to both sides. But is that such a problem when no one has been fair to the victims in question? This is an unnerving expose of the proliferation of rape on college campuses across America, and the whole affair will make parents fear for the safety of their daughters (and in some cases, sons), and those whose kids have fortunately remained untouched by the decadence, would feel ashamed at the plight of other innocents affected by the blatant collusion and disregard displayed by the powers that could have easily done the right thing. It's not the numbers here you'll remember, but the stories - a montage of students relating how they called their parents, post-rape, is the saddest thing you'll see on screen this year. When and where your frustration and anger boil over while watching "The Hunting Ground" is an individual experience; one that will be different for everyone who sees it. But if you're not disgusted by the institutional apathy and unscrupulousness revealed in "The Hunting Ground", you may actually be a rapist or molester yourself.

Sandy Lynn This is a shocking expose of how, for decades, colleges have ignored sexual assaults of their students. If the true number of rapes on campus were known, the school would suffer tremendous financial repercussions. For starters, who wants to send their daughter to a college with high rape rate. Then the school wants to protect the student athletes from responsibility to keep the lucrative sports programs successful, and finally, they need to keep the fraternity system going so need to ignore rapes there. It turns out that all colleges have a high rape rates, the stats are just falsified. About 100,000 college students will be sexually assaulted this coming school year if things don't change. It's also the story of two very brave young women who are changing things. After their sexual assault complaints were ignored by the University of North Carolina, they dedicate themselves to giving victims / survivors at colleges throughout country a voice. That voice is the filing of Title IX complaints. First they file their own, and then they go on the road, helping students at colleges around the country file their own Title IX complaints. Without the assistance of lawyers, these 20 year old young women are really helping change the whole system. Since all the colleges apparently care about is finances, this turns out to be brilliant because the penalty if the college is found responsible is the loss of its federal funding. Now almost 100 colleges are under investigation by the Department of Education for violations of Title IX and thanks to pressure from these same women the Department of Education has released the list of the colleges under investigation. Rape victims are suddenly a lot more important to colleges. These young women are doing great, important work even as they are being re-traumatized by repeatedly having to hear other victims stories, not to mention the threats they have to repeatedly endure. There were at least two moments in the film where I had goose bumps because of what was being presented, which I can't say happens in every documentary, so it was very riveting as well.

ninjatimetravel i saw it on my campus, and it was so compelling. Our campuses are letting down victims of sexual assault. The brave women who come forward are ostracized, blamed, and abused by their fellow students, the media, their universities, and trolls on the Internet. I am a UNC grad, and I was so proud of the women in the film.Fraternities are the nexus of a lot of campus problems. Until universities get a handle on them not much will change. If state supported universities did a better job of protecting their students instead of protecting their meal tickets the world would be a much better place.The sad fact is the people who hate this film are uncomfortable with the bad deeds of their alma maters have committed for money and recognition.