DESCENT: an action of moving downward, dropping, or falling.
DESCENT: the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality.
You see, cleverly, both meanings are embedded in this movie. Rosario Dawson is Maya, an intelligent mixed-race student at a small college that seems to be mostly white. When she accepts the urging of one of her friends and goes to a frat house for a keg party, the white girls give her what can be considered condescending looks.
One of the guys, Chad Faust as Jared, a football player who doesn't quite make the grade, comes on to Maya with weak, sophomoric pickup lines. She is not impressed. By sheer persistence he manages to get her to agree to a real date. When he gets her to come back to his place he turns into what he really is, racially bigoted (by the names he calls her), looking to see what he can get. The thrill of "doing it" to someone inferior.
On first viewing in a linear fashion it may not be easy to see all that, but viewing it from the beginning after seeing the whole movie it all becomes clear. And this begins the other meaning of descent, moving downward, dropping, falling. Maya changes, and it isn't for the better.
The revenge comes at the end, in an extended scene that takes up about the last 1/3 of the movie. She gets what she set up, but it all brings tears in her eyes, realizing the depth she has fallen. Her accomplice is played by big, muscular Marcus Patrick as Adrian, one of the guys she got to know in her descent.
SPOILERS: Her being raped and degraded by Jared changed her but she got a T.A. job the next academic year, and by luck Jared was one of the students. She called him back after monitoring a mid semester test, she had seen him cheating. But in his egocentric world he took that as a sign she wanted to see him again. She took the opportunity to set it all up, she got him to her place, she had him take off his clothes, he was uncomfortable but went along. He let her blindfold him and handcuff to a bed. After some preliminaries on her own she brought in Adrian who, in a quite long scene, anally raped Jared. Revenge.
DESCENT: the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality.
You see, cleverly, both meanings are embedded in this movie. Rosario Dawson is Maya, an intelligent mixed-race student at a small college that seems to be mostly white. When she accepts the urging of one of her friends and goes to a frat house for a keg party, the white girls give her what can be considered condescending looks.
One of the guys, Chad Faust as Jared, a football player who doesn't quite make the grade, comes on to Maya with weak, sophomoric pickup lines. She is not impressed. By sheer persistence he manages to get her to agree to a real date. When he gets her to come back to his place he turns into what he really is, racially bigoted (by the names he calls her), looking to see what he can get. The thrill of "doing it" to someone inferior.
On first viewing in a linear fashion it may not be easy to see all that, but viewing it from the beginning after seeing the whole movie it all becomes clear. And this begins the other meaning of descent, moving downward, dropping, falling. Maya changes, and it isn't for the better.
The revenge comes at the end, in an extended scene that takes up about the last 1/3 of the movie. She gets what she set up, but it all brings tears in her eyes, realizing the depth she has fallen. Her accomplice is played by big, muscular Marcus Patrick as Adrian, one of the guys she got to know in her descent.
SPOILERS: Her being raped and degraded by Jared changed her but she got a T.A. job the next academic year, and by luck Jared was one of the students. She called him back after monitoring a mid semester test, she had seen him cheating. But in his egocentric world he took that as a sign she wanted to see him again. She took the opportunity to set it all up, she got him to her place, she had him take off his clothes, he was uncomfortable but went along. He let her blindfold him and handcuff to a bed. After some preliminaries on her own she brought in Adrian who, in a quite long scene, anally raped Jared. Revenge.