Unbelievable - Arts & Culture

The short series, Unbelievable, came out recently in 2019 and it is a show based on true events about an 18 year-old girl, Marie, who’s blindfolded and raped in the middle of the night. When she comes forward about it to her family, friends and the police, no one believes her. The police think she’s just a young girl making up stories and her friends and family just think that she's just trying to get attention. Her case gets dismissed. Throughout the series other women are coming forward about being raped under very similar circumstances that Marie had encountered. This continues to happen to many women until two female detectives from two different jurisdictions end up meeting and decide to share case information with each other. Because of this, they were able to make a connection between numerous rape cases and figure out that it was the same guy, there was a serial rapist out there blindfolding and raping women in the middle of the night. Eventually they end up catching the guy and finding video proof of some of the rapes, including a very first video of Marie. She finally gets some justice at the end of the series when the female detective calls her to tell her that they caught the guy, and that she did believe her.

After watching this series, I was truly heartbroken. The ignorance of young women is not something new that we’ve seen throughout history and even society today. There’s been a lot of debates and articles written regarding rape cases deeming as “not as important” in regards to other cases, when really every case should be a number one priority. There are women who don’t even come forward about situations like these because they don’t think anyone will even listen. A lot of people think these girls just want attention, or say that they "asked for it" which in my opinion, is not right at all. In our sex and resistance class, we talk a lot about women from history to now and how they’re treated, specifically the power men hold over them. In Unbelievable, the detectives that thought Marie was making up a story were two men, they just saw a young girl telling a story that they didn’t believe made sense, while the detectives that actually did something about it and were able to bring this young girl justice, were women. Isn't that ironic? This series is a complete rollercoaster, but also relays such an important topic that not a lot of people pay attention to. You can find this series on Netflix, I really recommend giving it a try. If you do decide to watch it, let us know what you think about it. -Kelly

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