I saw this at a film festival years ago. At the same time feminists were decrying harsh pornographic images, the National Film Board of Canada found it okay for feminist filmmakers to use the same type of imagery to target the evildoers! Not A Love Story is one example - featuring hardcore footage -- and this is another. The movie opens with a depiction of confinement, rape, and urination on the female that could have been ripped from some exploitation picture. But of course here the images are used for a good purpose so it's okay. There is also rather bombastic though efffective use of stock footage from war and ethnography, as well as recreations which are suggested as part of stock footage. Feminists today may look at the film from a slightly different perspective, as promoting the sense of total victimhood. This film is also dated by the then-orthodox view that rape is strictly a crime of violence and not actually sexual, whereas later feminists such as Paglia dismiss this vew. There are many suspect aspect of this docudrama is the presentation of the actor playing the rapist as many other males in society. The suggestion is that any man -- or everyman -- is a rapist. And getting back to exploitation -- it is amazing there was no concern expressed over the filmmakers inclusion of young girls in the film, marched out with heads bowed while a group of women describe comprehensively how they (the girls) have all been raped in society.
In sum, this film is all over the place, using subjective camera techniques to create a high- impact sense of violent sexaul assault by a man, then pulling back to present the female filmmakers discussing the scene in clinical terms, then jumping into classic documentary propaganda technique, before immersing itself in stylized theatrical scenes of women describing rape in ultimate terms (the crime is worse than war victims, we are informed), before going back into the fictional realism that started the movie -- adroitly mirroring the image of the lead female after being raped with an image of her after her male partner tries to make love to her a few weeks later. Then an additonal mirroring image is used to reinforce the message that this woman is defined by rape in life, and then she kills herself. But even then it is not over for the viewer - a message about women wearing whistles is followed by whistle sounds emanating from every nook and cranny in society, before they are sonically married with sounds of war sirens to drive home the message that rape is everywhere and the situation is a state of siege.
This film may well be anti-male -- the rapist's statement that when he was 13 he and his buddies wanted to and tried to rape a girl proves that -- but it is also anti-female.