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Rape: literally, you're correct, figuratively, not.

It was a rape that was interrupted or would have been consummated. Even worse, the woman then went on to have a relationship with the would-be-rapist: that in itself is a two-fold rape. In keeping with the plot (unbelievable as it is), it is a Stockholm Syndrome situation. On the other hand, it is a "rape" of the viewer, repeating as it does the "women like to be raped---- they ask for it." I thought you'd be more sensitive.
As far as downplaying the violence.... SPOILER: you didn't happen to see that a young girl was attacked, dismembered, and fed to dogs? Or that the perp was hit repeatedly in the head with a meat cleaver? I'd mention many other scenes, i.e. one of bone protruding from flesh after a karate blow, but you'd just say, "I've seen worse!"
You may have seen worse but hardly in a film where a "hero" does it. In your own example, Woody Harrelson's character is a worthless serial killer. We aren't meant to identify with him, he isn't portrayed as some vigilante, dispensing "tough" justice.
In a film where there is vicious violence meted out both from the Just and the Criminal, who cares about either? That's a moral (or should I say, "amoral") problem with much modern film: if both are scum bags, then there is no friction, there is just blood, gore, and violence.


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