Robert Miller (Robb Miller)

I completely disagree with poor reviews because the victim only gets a third of the screen time. The concept of this film is a dramatized study of the case, not a study of the impact of the violence of rape on adult female victims etc etc. The purpose of the 3 perspectives is to demonstrate 1) the cultural, societal, judicial, and even scientific structure of the time from each person's view, 2) the facts as each affected party to the crime perceived them--and not just the 3 directly involved, but others close to those 3--since the determination of "truth" in cases where facts are few and witnesses even fewer is extraordinarily difficult, and 3) that the impact of sexual assault crimes on all involved has not changed much despite 600 years of human advancement. The brilliance of the script/direction is how, irrespective of the crime, it makes us all thankful we were not born in that period. It's clear that were you not a member of the 2% nobility, you were just a tool to serve them. Even if you were a member, women were property in the eyes of the law: Rape was a property crime. And yet, I was still uncomfortable with the similarities between then and now: it demonstrated how far we've advanced in human rights, but also how much further we have to go regarding how our culture, society, justice system and even science handles the violence of rape, particularly for its victims. All 3 perspectives was the best method to accomplish the presentation of the dispensary of justice for the victim, perpetrator, and the victim's family then, the difficulty in finding truth, and the similarities present even today. I hope everyone was as uncomfortable with those similarities as I was so that we are all more appreciative of how far we've come yet accept how far we still have to go.