Victim is an experimental, interview-driven short film centered on Olivia Darvish, an incarcerated woman serving 25-to-life for killing her abusive husband. In a fixed, confessional setup that breaks the fourth wall, Olivia recounts a lifetime of sexual abuse—first by her father, then by partners—culminating in the birthday-night assault that triggers her decisive act. As the camera slowly pushes in, an on-screen aging effect advances Olivia through decades in real time, turning testimony into temporal evidence of harm and punishment. The film poses a stark question—who gets punished in cases of lifelong victimization—and uses minimal mise-en-scène, direct address, and VFX aging to braid memory, trauma, and the carceral gaze into a single, unflinching statement.
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