Perversion (film)

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Perversion
Directed by	Jose Mojica Marins
Produced by	José Mojica Marins Melquíades
Written by	Jose Mojica Marins Crounel Martins
Starring	Jose Mojica Marins Arlete Moreira
Music by	Oscar Marcil
Cinematography	Giorgio Attili
Editing by	Nilcemar Leyart
Release date(s)	1979
Running time	100 min
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese
Preceded by	A Deusa de Mármore
Followed by	Mundo-mercado do Sexo
IMDb profile

Perversion (original title Perversão) is a 1979 Brazilian exploitation film by Brazilian film director José Mojica Marins. It has also been released as Rape! (Estupro!).

[edit] Plot

Vitório Palestrina is a playboy millionaire known as "The Commendator" with an inappropriate sense of entitlement who mistreats women. After using alcohol to seduce a young woman, Silvia, he brutally rapes her, biting off one of her nipples in the process. He keeps the nipple in a glass case as a sort of trophy.

Because of his actions, Palestrina's position in society is elevated and he becomes more admired, while the mutilated woman becomes ostracized and shamed. Women will not speak to her; men and boys chase her through the streets with sticks yelling things such as, "She's not normal!".

Palestrina is acquitted of the charges of raping and mutilating Silvia on the grounds of insufficient evidence, and laughs at the victim when the judge gives the verdict.

He commemorates his triumph with a party at which he proudly displays the severed nipple to his guests. They gather around to admire the now leathery nipple. Palestrina continues to seduce other young women until he develops a passion for Veronica, a beautiful young medical student who is not as succeptible to his charm.

To obtain Veronica's love and loyalty, Palestrina must endure a more traditional courtship: Veronica requires him to proclaim love and propose marriage before she relents. When he finally does, Veronica allows Palestrina to consummate their affair with a long, passionate episode of lovemaking. As he settles into a peaceful post coital state, Veronica calmly reaches into her purse and removes a surgical knife with which she castrates him. She then has flashbacks which reveal that Veronica is Silvia's sister.

Naked and covered in blood, Veronica slowly bandages Palestrina's wounds and says, "You promised me everything. I accepted." — all the while envisioning future times of bliss with her beloved sister Silvia.