This film has absolutlety shaken me. I watched it last night and literally had trouble sleeping. The rape scene was by far too literal for me, so I skipped a lot of it. The horror I felt stemmed from the fact the the scene was portrayed with such realism, the girls agony was tangible. The only thing I felt when the film ended was a deep sadness that such cruelty exists. I don't think that time destroys the significance of all things, simply removes them from the present.
It was especially confronting when the Tenia beat the fuck out her immediately after raping her, so different to the 'after-love' feelings of most people. I almost feel sorry for the Tenia, that feelings of tenderness and gentlessness have been erased and reaplced by mad violence and sadism. Such can be the nature of the world I guess, that one of the truest expression, sexual love, can be turned into its (polar?) opposite.