The Hunting Ground

The Hunting Ground, is a documentary film about rape and sexual assault on college campuses. The purpose of the film is to arouse public support for victims of sexual assault. While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark are the two rape survivors that are the main focus of the movie. These two women, despite all that they had to go through at the school, inspired the initiation for the attainment of Title IX investigations, which forces colleges and university administrators to straightforwardly lecture about the topic of sexual assault. Sexual assault on school campuses may be one of society’s classic examples of failure towards a civil society. With being the case, great numbers of women and men have suffered as a result of it. What is so powerful about this film is that it uses testimonies from rape survivors to insinuate that sexual assault on school campuses are common and that they are okay as long as the victim is still alive, but it is not.
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Prosecutors like to handle criminal cases that deal more with the law of the land than with the defense’s self-respect. In the United States, we have a justice system that is designed to protect the innocent man but the system itself hardly makes any real case worth the trial because sexual assault has so many standards of evidence and a certain proof must need be reached in order to have a proper case of sexual assault (Grey, dcccd.com). However, with the case of rape, just because there may not be enough physical evidence at hand, does not mean that the defense should not be prosecuted because they are deemed innocent. Also, just because there was not enough evidence to prove it, does not mean a victim was not sexually assaulted or not experiencing some trauma because of the