CCChat-Magazine_Issue-16

"People don’t want to know, they genuinely don’t want to know – it’s too hard to
take in, too hard to believe that this many people are suffering – right next door.
It’s too hard to know that, because then they’d have to take responsibility for it."
Rachel Meyrick
R: I was staying in this hotel and I went
across the road to the Red Lobster and
ordered two margaritas.
M: I can imagine. There’s all this emotion
and what do you do with it? I actually
recognised one of the women and I’m
actually going to be talking to her next
week.
R: How you you feel she was portrayed in
the film?
M: I wanted to cry.
M: Going back to what you said about
how victims of abuse don’t often come
across well on film, I think what tends to
happen, and I’ve seen this with a lot of
documentaries, there are various people
talking about victims of abuse- police,
frontline workers, even people who work
directly with victims and there’s this
othering that goes on. It’s always ‘these
women’ it’s almost like there is a 'them
and us' situation and what I got with your
documentary is that this isn’t about them
and us, this could be any one of us. I
mean, in my case, it actually was but if
circumstances were a little bit different,
this could happen to anyone of us.
R: I really wanted to get that across.
Making The Invisible Visible