Too often, our culture assumes that when youвЂ™ve consented to something once, youвЂ™ve consented to it forever. ItвЂ™s an amazing example of ongoing, active consent. When it starts getting seriously uncomfortable, they check in again, talk through how theyвЂ™re feeling, and when a stranger intrudes on them and things get even scarier, they break off the fusion. And after theyвЂ™ve been playing with their new body for a while (running, swimming, and eating doughnuts вЂ“ yeah, that sounds about right), they touch base: вЂњAre you okay? We can stop if youвЂ¦ No. ItвЂ™s both fun and scary, exciting and disconcerting. The fusion is a surprise to them both вЂ“ to everyone, in fact, since nobody had imagined it would be physically possible. They donвЂ™t just check in at the beginning of their encounter. And when they fuse into Stevonnie, they do something rarely seen in pop culture. In вЂњ Alone Together,вЂќ Steven and ConnieВ fuse (a magical process where two beings fuse into one, usually temporarily). (Spoilers for Steven Universe, Thelma and Louise, Frozen, The Philadelphia Story, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.) 1. Whether itвЂ™s because the creators were thinking consciously about consent or simply had good values, here are five times pop culture got consent right. Rape victims stay friends and lovers with their rapists, with rape being trivialized and even denied.Д«ut pop culture does have its moments. Rape and sexual assault are excused because the victim вЂњ wanted it.вЂќ Lying and manipulating people into bed, and having sex with people too drunk to consent, are offered as light, prime-time humor. Persistence and not taking no for an answer are portrayed as romantic. Pop culture often promotes some lousy ideas about consent. (Violence, nudity, sexual situations, profanity.Characters Steven and Connie from Steven Universe, their foreheads pressed together and faces flush, smiling. Coleman, Patton and Kevin McCarthy make the best of underdeveloped characters. Lisa Blount is strong as theДЄmbitious DA briefly suspected of the murder. Wirth is effective as the mysterious Martin. It is hard to believe that a woman as intelligent and accomplished as Gwen would fall into Martin's trap. But in a scuffle in Gwen's attic, Martin is killed.Д«edelia gives an engaging performance, but her interpretation of the central character may be the film's fatal flaw. Rather than kill Gwen, he wants to see her imprisoned, like his father. Weapon and prove her innocence, Martin returns. She learns that she had sentenced Martin's father to life imprisonment. Knowing that her arrest is imminent, Gwen frantically researches her past cases to discover Martin's identity and motive. She brings the police to Martin's loft, but he has disappeared. She assumes that her husband has framed her, but then she learns that Martin is the one who set Gwen presides over the case, and discovers that evidence planted at the crime scene links her to the murder. Charles is found murdered, and one of his many lovers is arrested for the crime. Her jealous husband Alan (Will Patton) knows Gwen is cheating, but suspects that her lover is attorney Charles Mayron (Dabney Coleman), Gwen's friend andД¬olleague. Her marriage on the rocks, Judge Gwen Warwick (Bonnie Bedelia) begins an illicit affair with a young library clerk, Martin (Billy Wirth). It was released direct to home video after some 1994 festival showings. William Bindley's debut feature aspires to the John Grisham league of legal thriller but, with a pedestrian plot and a lack of sustained suspense, JUDICIAL CONSENT falls well short.

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