Documentary Analysis: The Hunting Game

The Hunting Game

The Hunting Game offers a biased perspective on sexual assault. Colleges that are shown in the documentary are shown as uncooperative when dealing with victims coming forward with sexual assault claims. The victims are mostly incoming freshmen girls coming to college for the first time, where they are more vulnerable to peer pressure from friends and more likely to fall into alcohol tendencies. Boys at these colleges have several experiences with sexual assault before they are ever reported plus their perspective of not harming the victim physically or emotionally; this allows their behavior to become more unpredictable with sexual assault on campus. With the teenage brain still developing at this time, teens are not fully understanding the consequences of their actions.

The documentary lacked a deeper idea of why sexual assault happens on campus. The idea of alcohol being a big influence on all sexual assault claims. The colleges are not likely to fix not only the sexual assault claims but the alcohol consumption on campus that influences many other bad events, like car crashes, that occur on campuses nationwide. Alcohol influences the mind to misinterpret the idea of sexual consent in relationships, enhancing the brains perspective of situations with another person. The documentary just barely

“The Hunting Game” focuses mostly on freshmen goal to achieve their biased opinion on sexual assault on college grounds, and how colleges deal with these claims. “Male ages 18-24 are approximately 5 times more likely than non-students of the same age to be a victim of rape or sexual assault.” Men at their prime age of 18-24 are more likely to succumb to peer pressure due to the inexperience and vulnerability in the mind due to the brain not being fully developed. “The Hunting Game” lacks evidence on male rape on college campuses just barely touching on the subject to avoid serious backlash from