剧情：Penanceisanexampleofthisdecade's"tortureporn"crazeatitsworst.Cheaplymade,withlargelyunknownactors,thefilmlacksthecreativityoffilmssuchasSaw,substitutingshocktacticsfororiginality. Thestoryisnothingnew.Aninnocentyoungwomanisforcedtobecomeastripperbecauseoffinancialtrouble,andendsupfallingintothehandsofadepravedreligio... (展开全部) Penanceisanexampleofthisdecade's"tortureporn"crazeatitsworst.Cheaplymade,withlargelyunknownactors,thefilmlacksthecreativityoffilmssuchasSaw,substitutingshocktacticsfororiginality. Thestoryisnothingnew.Aninnocentyoungwomanisforcedtobecomeastripperbecauseoffinancialtrouble,andendsupfallingintothehandsofadepravedreligio... Penanceisanexampleofthisdecade's"tortureporn"crazeatitsworst.Cheaplymade,withlargelyunknownactors,thefilmlacksthecreativityoffilmssuchasSaw,substitutingshocktacticsfororiginality. Thestoryisnothingnew.Aninnocentyoungwomanisforcedtobecomeastripperbecauseoffinancialtrouble,andendsupfallingintothehandsofadepravedreligiousfanatic.(I'mahumanist,andevenIthinkthismoviegivesreligionabadname.)Whatfollowsisanhourlongwallowintortureandextremelygraphicsequencesofgenitalmutilation,bothmaleandfemale. Whatmakesthemovieparticularlydisgustingisitsimplicitacceptanceofthemorallogicofthevillain.Theprotagonistisavictimofcircumstance,nota"bad"stripperliketheothers,whoaredepictedinthemoststereotypical,degradingwaypossible.Attimes,thisapproachpushesthefilmintooutrightmisogyny. Furthermore,PenancereliesonavideotapingframingdevicerippedofffrombetterfilmslikeREC.Theresultisacheaplookingdigitalfeaturethataddsnothingtotheoverallstory. TheonlygoodpointsofthefilmarethesceneswithMichaelRooker,whichunfortunatelycompriseonlytenminutesorso.Onewishesthefilmhadbeenfocusedonhischaracterinstead.