DaRealness
I think very deeply
I came in here to ask that. Why do you all think the director wanted you to feel like he deserved what happened to him? Nothing in the film suggests this. This is a ritual that this group of people do every some odd years. He was a victim of this ritualistic practice. Has nothing to do with him being a bad person. Maybe I need to see it again but I didn't get any of that in my theater viewing
The director himself has said it many times:
Inside the Craziest Movie Sex Scene of the Year
The visceral jumble of conflicted reactions a viewer might have to the scene is the goal. “It’s designed to be funny and uncomfortable and beautiful and strange,” he says. The rest of the film’s third act is meant to elicit “catharsis,” but not in a way that lets audiences off the hook. “The guy that you have been conditioned to not like is going to be humiliated for about 40 minutes and totally just destroyed. He is totally undressed, rendered completely vulnerable, used by these women for their own purposes. He’s exploited by them completely.”