What’s the most violent filmscene that you remember having watched?

One film comes to my mind, Breaking the Waves. That’s a very brutal film and you have goosbumps all the time. Unfortunately I just no longer remember the ending. I know that she dies. How she is killed by the village people or how…Her husband orders her to have sex with other men and in the end she is fucked to death. It’s such a brutal film. Yeah right, now I remember, she is brought to a boat and is raped and dies in the end from her wounds. She is brought to a bigger ship with a yawl and there are these disgusting guys, who eventually are not only interested in having sex with her. It escalates and they humiliate her as well. And she is so obsessed about obeying her husband. She thinks that he will get well if she sacrifices herself. That’s extremely violent. This self-inflicted pain, love, dependency, pain…The development of the violence is so intense, it just increases throughout the film.

Do you remember if the scene took place in daytime or nighttime?

Daytime.

How many men were there?

I think two or three, not so many.

How did they and she look?

They were like disgusting sailor types. She looked horrible. She had a mini skirt on and high heels, not a particular beautiful woman, well…in this film she is not portrayed as a porn star, more like a hippie, naïve. With a red lipstick mouth, she paints herself too much and in the end of the scene everything is blurred like a clowns mask.

If you had to embody one of the characters, victim or perpetrator, in this scene which would you choose?

Well I cannot identify with the men, because I don’t have violence in me and also because I am a woman. And because women are anyways from start already victims because of their gender. I don’t know how she get’s in contact with these men, I only know that she is picked up at the harbor in a yawl and is brought to this boat anchored but also I remember that she does not try to flee. That’s so crazy that she lets this happen to herself. But her husband eventually gets well again.

Do you remember how she dies? Does one see what the men do to her?

I think both rape and beating is happening. But she does not die on the boat. She drags herself to shore again to the church and the priest throws her out of church or leaves her bleeding to death and does not call for help. Already after the first sex escapade she is banished from the church. She is an incredible religious person. That’s why she does it. Through her faith. Because she believes in Good. That from all the evil something Good will come.

 Is this type of self-inflicted pain something female you think?

Yes. But that can be explained by the fact that men and women love differently. They have different “households of emotions.”

Do you think that women love more than men?

Well definitely differently. Men are more on the optical and are more sexually oriented. Most imaginations that men have are not like “flower sex”, it’s more full on, in the mind too. With women, well of course there are always exceptions but with women in general love is less through optical attraction. I cannot insert myself into this female character, but I have understood her person. They are both unfortunately not beautiful people, that’s actually good. But that’s why you as a viewer think if you would do something like that for this idiot. And her husband is so brutal to her, being paralysed and all. In principal we women are the humble ones. And if you really push it to the top: Consensual sex is also a form of violence. This penetration is a form of violence. That’s why I think that is why men kill more often than women. It’s connected with our primal genes.