What if Esther raped Daniel?

This was just a film right? A horror esque film at that? A genre where *horrific* things happen in *horror* films? This conversation makes it sound like someone is suggesting it was a fly on the wall recording of real life and this stuff really happened and the people are real....... LOL

And no, you're not a troll, English. I don't agree with all that you've said, but I get the point behind the line of questioning. Because at that point in the film, you still think she's a kid...and you know something's off, that she's mentally too old for her age, but you can't quite place it.

And in the original script, she has scissors that she puts to his eye, then down between his legs, threatening to cut it off if he speaks (with words that hint to a sexual connotation with the 'before you even know what it's for' line, and while he's in a bed), and then it clearly says in the script that she takes a moment to 'savour his fear', so she's taking pleasure out of the whole thing. That's not as clear in the film, it's clearer in the script.

So there are hints of a sexual undertone in the scene that remains firmly unspoken (and no, this is not sick, this is a well known horror writing trick if you study the craft of writing and film making, especially in the horror genre...if you trick the human brain into thinking into thinking on a sexual line about something, (even if for a fleeting second or unconsciously without you even realising that what you're seeing has a sexual undertone), when that is alongside something horrific (sometimes it's blood and gore or killing, in this case it's a teenager being terrified by a knife) then it makes the scene even more disturbing to the viewer (or reader in a book). Because they are two things that shouldn't go together, so we have a bigger reaction of repulsion to it. And it's even more so when it's subtle, because you can't put your finger on why, you don't realise there's a sexual undertone, so you don't realise that's why it's disturbing because it's alongside something horrific...it's so subtle you can't put your finger on it, you just know the scene is really flipping disturbing. It's actually very very clever and something that good horror writers use with skill in films and books and have done for decades.

So it's a very pertinent question, but I completely disagree with the idea of there being a rape between them. It would have been far too much and would have made me feel thoroughly sick.

So yeah, I don't agree with the original post question, but I can see why it was thought of by someone. And seeing as there's an actual sense behind the question, that means, English, you're not a troll, cos you weren't just replying out of nowhere for the sake of winding people up, there was an actual sense behind it.

Try to make who you're addressing clearer.