Cassavetes thinks he's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause, but all he's done is to
reduce everything he touches to a shrill, didactic cartoon.
At first
they reduce everything they touch to dust.
Not exact matches
«The fish appear to
reduce their respiration rate, but they don't entirely switch
everything off because they still show a classic escape response if they are
touched, even when under anoxic conditions.
However you need to understand that they specifically changed the legal term to the generalized «sexual assault» exactly because of the reaction you had... if the old term of «unwanted
touching» instead of rape was used it would have
reduced the seriousness of the assault, hence why now
EVERYTHING is labelled with the «sexual assault» tag!