Girls on Film: Domestic Violence and Media

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Only a few years ago, Evan Rachel Wood was Lolita’d up, wearing heart-shaped glasses and having super-sexy sex on-tape with Marilyn Manson. It was one apt metaphor for a relationship between a couple with an eighteen-year age difference. Fast-forward to the present, and Wood has moved on, leaving Manson to do what he does best – lather in controversial thoughts and stretch every boundary and opinion of decency. But this time, it’s taken a new turn. His new video “Running to the Edge of the World” watches him sing with a tortured look in his eyes for a good four minutes before twisting into a domestic violence fest, a girl looking like Wood’s doppelganger getting the living crap beat out of her and then looking around, scared, with blood dripping all over her.

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