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Descent
Descent
	Release poster
Directed by	Talia Lugacy
Written by	Talia Lugacy ; Brian Priest
Produced by	Rosario Dawson ; Morris S. Levy ; Talia Lugacy
Starring	Rosario Dawson ; Chad Faust ; Marcus Patrick
Cinematography	Christopher LaVasseur
Edited by	Frank Reynolds
Music by	Alex Moulton
Distributed by	City Lights Pictures
Release date	April 26, 2007 (Tribeca);
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$15,233

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Descent is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Talia Lugacy and produced by and starring Rosario Dawson.

Plot

Maya is an upcoming artist and college student. In the winter of her senior year, Maya attends a fraternity party and talks to a man named Jared. She accepts his invitation to dinner at a restaurant, then goes to his apartment, just to talk. They start to make out, but when Maya tells him to stop, Jared soon reveals his true self and brutally rapes her while uttering dehumanizing slurs in her ear.

Over the next year, Maya's personality changes. She becomes quiet and withdrawn, graduating from college and taking a job at a clothing store. She disconnects herself from society and other familiar surroundings while struggling to break free of the resulting depression and addiction. At night, she's someone else: a beauty at the nightclub scene, dancing, seductive, sniffing cocaine. Maya later meets and seeks out the help of a DJ she meets at a club, named Adrian, whom she confides in.

Maya becomes TA to a class Jared is in. One day she catches him cheating on an exam and threatens to report it, but instead uses it as an opportunity to lure Jared to her apartment. Jared willingly complies. She turns the tables on him by tying him to her bed and blindfolding him. She allows Adrian to rape Jared several times. Echoing what Jared said to Maya. In the final shot, as Maya watches Adrian brutally sodomize Jared, she seems slightly regretful and sheds a tear, seeming to indicate she is still not over her psychological issues.

Cast

Rosario Dawson as Maya
Chad Faust as Jared
Marcus Patrick as Adrian
James A. Stephens as Professor Byron
Vanessa Ferlito as Bodega girl
Tracie Thoms as Denise
Alexie Gilmore as Seline
Jonathan Tchaikovsky as Tyler
Phoebe Strole as Innocent Girl
Nicole Vicius as Melanie
Scott Bailey as Upstairs guy

Release

Descent was released in two alternate cuts: a 105-minute uncut NC-17 rated version and a 95-minute R-rated version. The notable difference between the two is that the edited release omits about seven minutes of the second rape scene.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 35% based on reviews from 34 critics, with an average rating of 4.88/10. The website's consensus states: "Descent has the potential to make a statement about sexual violence, but falls flat by focusing on revenge rather than Rosario Dawson's emotional state."^[2] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 45 out of 100 based on reviews from 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[3]

Matt Zoller Seitz of The New York Times wrote: "Hard to watch but essential to see, Descent is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place."^[4]^[5]

References

^ "Descent". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
^ "Descent". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
^ "Descent". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
^ Matt Zoller Seitz (August 10, 2007). "A Date Goes Terribly Wrong. Now It's Time to Return the Favor". The New York Times.
^ Anderson, John (July 30, 2007). "Descent". Variety.

External links

Descent at IMDb
Descent at Box Office Mojo

[1] "Descent". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 4, 2020.

[2] "Descent". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved September 11, 2020.

[3] "Descent". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 11, 2020.

[4] Matt Zoller Seitz (August 10, 2007). "A Date Goes Terribly Wrong. Now It's Time to Return the Favor". The New York Times.

[5] Anderson, John (July 30, 2007). "Descent". Variety.

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 ==Release==
-''Descent'' was released in two alternate cuts: a 105-minute uncut NC-17 rated version and a 95-minute R-rated version. The notable difference between the two is that the edited release omits about seven minutes of the second rape scene.{{Cn}}
+''Descent'' was released in two alternate cuts: a 105-minute uncut NC-17 rated version and a 95-minute R-rated version. The notable difference between the two is that the edited release omits about seven minutes of the second rape scene.{{Cn|date=September 2020}}
 ==Reception==
 On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has an approval rating of 35% based on reviews from 34 critics, with an average rating of 4.88/10. The website's consensus states: "''Descent'' has the potential to make a statement about sexual violence, but falls flat by focusing on revenge rather than Rosario Dawson's emotional state."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1177708-descent/ | title=Descent | work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | publisher=[[Fandango (company)|Fandango]] | access-date=September 11, 2020 }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 45 out of 100 based on reviews from 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/descent | title=Descent | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] | access-date=September 11, 2020 }}</ref>
-Matt Zoller Seitz of [[The New York Times]] wrote: "Hard to watch but essential to see, Descent is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place."<ref>{{cite web |date=10 August 2007 |author=Matt Zoller Seitz |title=A Date Goes Terribly Wrong. Now It’s Time to Return the Favor. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/movies/10desc.html |website=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref>
+Matt Zoller Seitz of [[The New York Times]] wrote: "Hard to watch but essential to see, Descent is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place."<ref>{{cite web |date=August 10, 2007 |author=Matt Zoller Seitz |title=A Date Goes Terribly Wrong. Now It’s Time to Return the Favor. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/movies/10desc.html |website=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 30, 2007 |last=Anderson |first=John |title=Descent |url=https://variety.com/review/VE1117934287 |website=Variety }}</ref>
 ==References==