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116 - Straw Dogs

The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

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I Was Really Deeply Disturbed by His Emotional Violence Against Her

Dustin Hoffman plays a mathematician who gets hired to write some sort of a mathematics textbook. He's just married this beautiful young English last, Susan George, playing a character named Amy. And so through situations that we never are privy to, they decide to go to her hometown in Cornwall and get a little cottage out by the hills. They could go anywhere, but they decided to going to her hometown. To be honest, I was really profoundly disturbed by his emotional violence against her.

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