This is a really well-made documentary. You recognize Spacey is a manipulative predatory narcissist who has no regard for any of his victims or the harm he causes others. He only cares about himself and what he can exploit from others.
When people hear about sexual assault, they tend to believe it is only valid if it involves violence. However, this documentary goes to great lengths to demonstrate that abuse of this nature, even if it is "only a kiss, only a rub, only a touch," is soul-crushing to the victim. It chips away at your sense of worth and dignity, it damages you from within.
The men explain their experiences with this serial predator in raw detail. They have compassion and empathy for their predator, and like many victims do, they seek understanding for their predator, which stems from guilt.
Any woman in the world can relate to the stories these male victims tell about Kevin Spacey and what emotional turmoil they went through from these experiences. There is really no difference at all in the psychological impact of these cases to what women experience. Women go through the same a hundred times throughout their lives, being degraded, humiliated, and treated as if they have no value as humans. I was astonished by how similar the emotional and mental reactions of male victims were to those of female victims.
Whether you are a man or woman, sexual abuse is soul abuse. It harms your psyche more than your body. And this kind of indifference and disrespect for another person is highly hurtful on a deeper level than mere emotions, and damages ones self-worth.
Today, we witness a significant increase in women who have lost their sense of self-respect and will do any humiliation for money or opportunity. Watching this documentary I realised that if we mistreat and degrade people repeatedly in their lives, these victims begin to feel worthless and this begins to shape their lives. And finally, they surrender to this feeling of not being valued or worthy of anything, losing themselves in the process.
We have men like Kevin Spacey, Andrew Tate, Rich Cooper, and others who teach millions of other men to despise, demean, and destroy their male or female targets out of sheer cruelty, with little regard for the long-term effects on their victims' psyche. The social repercussions are long-term severe.
Humans are inherently sensitive creatures. We must not overstep the boundaries of what makes us human and helps us feel connected to ourselves.
