I watched this again after reading some of the positive reviews, thinking there must be something I missed in this story. But I still found it quite bizarre, violent, and triggering. I understand how the kidnapper wanted to help the suicidal man feel again and value his life. But using sexual assault didn't seem to be the best way to achieve this end goal. Then to see their relationship shift to a romantic one was just not believable. Stockholm Syndrome. If you want to see repeated and graphic male on male sexual assault, then this is the film for you. I have no problem with male on male sexual intimacy but the sex scenes were not sex, they were rape and it was just too gratuitous.

Why did I keep watching this? I really thought it would get better; that by the end it would actually make sense. But it did not.