Dick’s approach to his material is evident in the opener, which shows a number of young people, mostly women, reacting excitedly to their school acceptance letters.
Visually the movie is somewhat of a mess, and although that can be frustrating, it does reflect, wittingly or not, the cacophony defining the current discourse on rape. (The filmmaking pair previously collaborated on the documentaries “ Outrage,” about homophobia among American political elites, and “ The Invisible War,” about sexual assault in the United States military.) Subscribing to the more-is-more school of documentary, the director pulls out all of the stops in this movie, using talking-head interviews, vérité-like scenes, seemingly generic archival imagery, seemingly nongeneric archival imagery and numerous graphics, including some footnote-like citations. In “The Hunting Ground,” the writer-director Kirby Dick, working with the producer Amy Ziering, crams a crowd of faces and one seemingly unwieldy subject into a painful, absorbing, if periodically cluttered 103-minute documentary. At issue is whether they violated federal laws under Title IX, which bans gender discrimination at colleges receiving federal money. In a move that continues to make waves, it also released the names of 55 schools - from Harvard College to the University of California, Berkeley - that were under investigation by the Department of Education for their handling (or mishandling) of rape accusations. In 2014, the White House released guidelines on how campus rapes are to be treated. Fueling that discussion is the Obama administration, which has made the issue a priority. The movie arrives in the midst of a vigorous, sometimes furious and at times crudely simplistic national discussion about sexual assault. Their stories - delivered in sorrow and rage, with misting eyes and squared jaws - make this imperfect movie a must-watch work of cine-activism, one that should be seen by anyone headed to college and by those already on campus. A blunt instrument of a movie, it derives its power largely from the many young women and some men recounting on camera how they were raped at their schools and then subsequently denied justice by those same schools. If ever Watchers and Shell-walkers join the fray, do your best to evade and concentrate on damaging the stalker.“ The Hunting Ground,” a documentary shocker about rape on American college campuses, goes right for the gut.
This can be followed up by a Critical Hit and another series of attacks. You can engage the stalkers in melee combat, especially if you have the Knock Down skill which will certainly knock them down after a good heavy spear attack. Just make sure that you have your traps set up and you have a plan where to go to avoid getting flanked. If you’re feeling confident and adequately equipped, you can do the aggressive approach and deliberately get seen so that the other stalker (and machines) zero in on you and you have to fight them all at once. There’s one stalker near the keeper’s area so you can start with that. Placing some around you will help damaging them as well destroying any additional machines that may join the fray. Blast wires are very effective against them since they’re quite aggressive.
You have to kill two stalkers within two minutes to get the Blazing Sun.