Terms of Use | Executive producers: Joshua Rofe, Steven J. Berger, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Thomas Lesinski, Jenna Santoianni These days, the attention Lorena gets in this town is mostly positive. John Bobbitt tried to contact her many times in the past 25 years Near the end of the documentary, Lorena Bobbitt (now Lorena Gallo) reads a series of … “I was with a lot of women, a lot of women and none of them ever complained, except Lorena —” He paused. They talked for nearly a year before Lorena, motivated by her outrage about the election of Donald J. Trump and, months later, the #MeToo movement, decided the climate was finally right to tell her side. You know, just to integrate myself into normalcy and a normal life.”, John went on to star in pornographic films (“John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut” and “John Wayne Bobbitt’s Frankenpenis”). After years of alleged abuse, Lorena explains why she did what she did on a new documentary … [Subscribe to our Movies Newsletter to find out about the latest releases and Critics’ Picks.]. He became a fixture on “The Howard Stern Show.” “I don’t even buy that he was raping her,” Stern said on one segment with John. Lorena became a national joke, her suffering ignored by the male-dominated press. Daniel Fienberg But he's not. Fifteen minutes away, near Maplewood Drive, was the gravel-strewn field where she disposed of the detached penis out the driver’s side window. That is the first thing I noticed about her when we met. She understands that the reason she has a platform is because of the detached penis, because of the hot dog box and Frankenpenis and that unforgettable last name. But Lorena doesn’t think about things like that. “We did a lot of interviews and the approach was often something like ‘Well, that’s what you feminists wanted all along.’”. IMDb 7.2 2019 X-Ray 16+ From Executive Producer Jordan Peele, this four-part docuseries investigates the events of 1993, where Lorena Bobbitt sliced off her husband’s penis after years of abuse. It happens to women,” she said. The frustration of Lorena is that there are many reasons the story is relevant today and worthy of closer examination and reexamination. “To me, regret is ‘Oh, I bought a black car instead of a red car’ when you don’t choose right,” Lorena said. AdChoices MANASSAS, Va. — Lorena is very matter-of-fact about the whole thing. Despite the title — de-sensationalized via the removal of Lorena's married name — Lorena struggles to really be Lorena's story even in that last episode. Lorena Bobbitt on trial in Manassas, Va., in 1994. Lorena Bobbitt is of Ecuadorian descent, … And there's more to it than that. Production company: Amazon Studios The Lorena Bobbitt documentary reveals the weirdness of the 90s. They view her as a key data point in a conversation that also included Anita Hill and other women who, by action or deed, caused people to confront the apathetic or callous attitudes they had when the Bobbitt story broke. Is it just because you need filler footage to cut away to? [Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow and others on how #MeToo changed their lives.]. We talked about being moms and our naturally curly hair. Rofé said that before his talks with Lorena, he’d thought about the Bobbitt case (“the original clickbait,” he called it) like most people did. 8.5 Overall Score. (She told me her weight because she had weighed 95 pounds in 1993, when John said she had assaulted him.) Lorena Bobbitt in New York on Feb. 4. “The incident” — that is what Lorena calls the shocking crime that still makes many men grasp their crotch and assume she must be serving a life sentence. And yes, that's a penis-on-ice joke and I should be ashamed. (with correction to misstatement in the video. “And Joanna.” After we discussed the allegations, he proposed we keep talking over dinner at the Empire Hotel where he was staying. A woman who recognized her from a Zumba class ran up to us. Further down the road is the nail salon where she worked and fled to that night. | EU Privacy Preferences. After a while, I grew really sick of John popping up to say banal things on noncontroversial subjects and then not saying anything at all about his darker chapters. The documentary mostly unfolds in 1993, the dawn of Court TV and a proliferation of gossipy daytime talk shows. Al Franken, as the character Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live, implored Lorena to apologize to John’s penis. Hadley Freeman. She would talk to clients and learn that they, too, had been victims of domestic abuse. John came home drunk. Nurses. Simpson was arrested and later acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman. He has maintained that he planned to divorce Lorena and that after he denied her sex that night, in a vengeful rage, she cut off his penis while he slept. The reenactments in Lorena do nothing other than provide faceless, dully shot visualizations of events without generating any emotional or visceral response. 'Lorena' Documentary “Recontexulizes” Story of Lorena Bobbitt | Sundance 2019. Lorena is correct, of course, that most people forget that before she was tried for what she did, John was charged with marital sexual assault. Lorena Bobbitt severed the penis of her husband and … It occurred to me that there would be no documentary, no Bobbitt jokes or permanent place in popular culture, had John severed some vital piece of Lorena. That name you know, it’s very important here.”. But I didn’t just mean did she regret committing the act. “It would’ve been amazing. And that is why she took a break from volunteering with her daughter’s volleyball team and her work at her nonprofit, Lorena’s Red Wagon, that helps survivors of domestic violence, to have lunch and show me around this bedroom community outside Washington, where it all went down. And, she is correct, that people forget that a jury found her not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Amazon's new "Lorena" documentary sheds light on the Lorena Bobbitt scandal 25 years ago, when Bobbitt cut off her husband's penis. John and Lorena Bobbitt’s dueling narratives exploded in a ravenous 24-hour news cycle, igniting a renewed battle of the sexes. Meanwhile, in 2019, the case was back in the news, featured in an Amazon Prime documentary called Lorena. On a sleepy night in 1993, Lorena Bobbitt sliced off her husband’s penis after years of abuse. She doesn’t remember anything after that. “Nobody cared about anything except John and his surgery and his ‘loss,’” said Kim A. Gandy, a former president of the National Organization for Women. “I’m not a vindictive person because I told them where it was,” Lorena Gallo, as she is now known, said. The documentary series flips the script on the 1993 John and Lorena Bobbitt scandal to allow the latter to finally tell her side of the story. 2 years ago | 123 views "Everything people remember about that story is particularly skewed in one very specific direction, and what this story that we’ve told does is recontexulize it in the way it should have really been told 25 years ago," director Joshua Rofe said. Both Lorena and John Wayne were frequently interviewed at the time — THR's Kim Masters, who scored the first Lorena Bobbitt interview for Vanity Fair, is a featured talking head — and neither has a perspective that has changed or evolved appreciably over two-plus decades. Privacy Policy | Executive producer Jordan Peele takes a look at the 1993 case of Lorena and John Bobbitt, which made headlines around the world. No, it does not. © 2021 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. “Lorena” ends with the number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, but the narrative itself doesn’t take a side. Were John at all introspective, the long, tabloid-y stretches dedicated to his porn career and time at a Nevada brothel might be interesting. They found it, put it on ice in a Big Bite hot dog box from a nearby 7-Eleven and rushed it to the hospital where in a nine-and-a-half-hour feat of urological and plastic surgery it was reattached and restored to (almost) full function. Robert Sherbow/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images, Though she now goes by her maiden name, Lorena Gallo said, “I know I am still Lorena Bobbitt. She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, spotted the kitchen knife and was overcome from years of abuse. Heaven help us, that's not a pun. I asked. The nail salon, after all, had been Lorena’s refuge before and after the trial. Not long after Peele won an Oscar for “Get Out,” Rofé casually brought up his fixation with reassessing Lorena Bobbitt. (He was acquitted.) He asked Lorena if she was O.K. FACEBOOK Again, befitting their centrality in a media circus, nearly all of the talking heads sound like they've given comparable answers and made the same jokes for 25 years. “They always just focused on it …” — as in her husband’s detached and reattached and then, a couple of years later, surgically kind-of enlarged penis. John Wayne Bobbitt talking from his North Las Vegas home for the Amazon docu-series “Lorena.”. Feminists threaten to castrate American men if Lorena Bobbitt convicted. “When I finished with the trial, in the beginning, geez, I couldn’t even go to the grocery store because people would say, ‘Oh my god, You know what, I know you.’ I just wanted to put my groceries down and go home,” Lorena said in still accented English. In the years since the trial, he was arrested several times and served jail time for violence against two different women. Lorena is a 2019 American true-crime docuseries about the 1993 assault and subsequent court case involving John and Lorena Bobbitt. “We were vilified by the media, vilified and that is so sad. It just takes too long to get there. I asked when she decided to go blonde. When the world learned her name, Lorena was a 24-year-old immigrant manicurist in the process of leaving her husband. At the time, marital rape only recently had been made a crime in all 50 states and was nearly impossible to prove in Virginia. “I just wanted to take care of myself and my family. He was convicted and spent time in jail. She explained, again, what she told the jury in 1994. Attorneys on both sides. Back in the car, as Lorena pointed out the hospital where John had his surgery and where, just down the hall, she underwent a rape kit, I asked her if she regretted what she did. Music: Julian Wass Ahead of its streaming debut on Amazon Prime later this month, “Lorena” had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. “I wasn’t in my conscious mind.”. Again, she told me, there are only choices. Executive produced by Jordan Peele, this four-hour documentary eventually finds interesting things about the infamous Lorena Bobbitt case, but it needs more and better focus. (He denied the allegations.) “A million dollars is a million dollars,” she said. “I tried to drive the car, obviously, but I had this thing in my hand so I couldn’t drive so I got rid of it.” Obviously. She stared straight ahead at the road, the same road she had been on that night in 1993, a night that even though she didn’t want it to, has defined her life. This is my home. I declined. She hugged me hello, coming up to my neck in heels, and I was struck at how warm and maternal she was. It’s the actual story, she said — the one about a young immigrant who endured years of domestic violence, was raped by her husband that night, had nowhere to go and finally snapped — that she wanted to talk to me about. “They always laugh.”. “The national dialogue that started with Anita Hill, Lorena Bobbitt, O.J. For a woman who has been a punch line for most of her adult life, Lorena “Bobbitt” Gallo is a surprisingly sincere person. “And it’s like they all missed or didn’t care why I did what I did,” she said. Why should he have the last laugh?” she said when I asked why she didn’t move away. I asked John about the additional charges that the film covers, including a harrowing interview with one of his ex-girlfriends who said he tied her to the bed in his Niagara Falls, N.Y., apartment and for several days repeatedly raped her. The couple now have a 13-year-old daughter and live on a tidy street in a cream-colored brick house. “This is about a victim and a survivor and this is about what’s happening in our world today,” Lorena told me. "Lorena," a four-episode docu-series hits Amazon Friday, and takes a deep dive into why Lorena Bobbitt infamously sliced off her husband’s member in 1993. John is extensively interviewed, too, from a lounger in his home in North Las Vegas. For his part, John Wayne Bobbitt denied those accusations and continues to in new interviews that feel like a waste of time in a documentary that shouldn't be his. Television cameras follow Lorena Bobbitt into court in 1994. Even though she has physically transformed, now the picture of an upwardly mobile 49-year-old suburban mom with wispy blond hair, she has the same, sad, dark, orb-like eyes. (“Wife Rape? That afternoon we grabbed a coffee at Jirani Coffeehouse, near the courthouse where in 1994 the world’s media had descended to cover the Bobbitt trial, where vendors sold “Love Hurts” T-shirts and penis-shaped candy, and where inside Lorena, originally from Ecuador, trembled as she told a jury about how her husband, a former Marine, had repeatedly assaulted her. But as John spiraled downward, Lorena found strength in the scars of her ordeal. But Lorena is, unfortunately, a documentary that really could have used refinement in its argument — reached and yet still insufficient in that fourth episode — and a more robust focus on its anchor. Where are they now and how event changed things is the strongest aspect. If I had to guess as to Rofe's goal in spending so much time covering and recovering the crime and two trials, I'd say that he's trying to put all of those all-too-easy jokes on ice. Those first three hours are tremendously frustrating because the two Bobbitt trials were already media circuses, hers televised in its entirety on Court TV. It has been 26 years since Lorena Bobbitt, a 24-year-old wounded bird of a woman with dark, wiry hair and sad, penetrating eyes became so enshrined in the annals of popular culture that she makes a cameo in both a Philip Roth novel and Eminem lyrics. Some have the good sense to look embarrassed. Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt will be the subjects of tonight's ABC News 20/20. Lorena - Official Trailer | Prime Video Amazon’s documentary is a welcome attempt to correct the media imbalance at the time – then as, surely if … not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Even though the “War of the Bobbitts,” as People magazine called it, happened two years after Anita Hill inserted sexual harassment into the conversation and “Thelma & Louise” turned a housewife and a waitress into renegade icons of female revenge, most people never really thought of Lorena in those terms. Lorena Bobbitt, now 49, famously chopped off her partner's manhood in the 90s. Doctors. “When I was abused, I went to the salon and I didn’t have the key and had to sleep in my car outside,” she said. Lorena is actually directed by Joshua Rofe and, over the better part of its first three hours, it just rehashes the events of June 23, 1993, that led to Lorena Bobbitt cleanly slicing off husband John Wayne Bobbitt's penis, tossing it out the window of her car and spawning a pair of high-profile trials and an incalculable amount of nervous and probably inappropriate laugher, given that Lorena's professed justification was temporary insanity stemming from years of alleged rape and domestic abuse. 2) I'm not exactly sure, though if Jordan Peele wants to use this current moment of clout to enable long-form documentaries, all praise to him. Simpson, finally created a national discourse that gave us some traction on legislation,” said Katie Ray-Jones, chief executive of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Editors: Allan Duso, Poppy Das, Morgan Hanner, Azin Samari Did she regret giving him a modicum of fame and a small but steady lifelong income? Lorena (2019) Published on February 17, 2019, by JPRoscoe - Posted in TV Shows 0. “I do not remember Lorena Bobbitt, feminist hero.”, Domestic violence activists tried to refocus the conversation. He explained that to Lorena when he reached out to her in December 2016, after reading about her work with domestic violence victims in HuffPost. Many women reporters, the documentary makes a point of emphasizing, wanted to write about the Bobbitt … In the 1990s, she was the topic of tabloid headlines and comedy skits. “I know I am still Lorena Bobbitt,” she said. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is a registered trademark of The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. In Rofé and Peele’s hands, the 24-hour news cycle becomes a voracious, multiheaded monster that eventually engulfs everything. Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt at their 1989 wedding. After years of abuse and torment, Lorena snaps on her husband causing him what most men would consider the worst physical pain the... – Kuuntele Lorena and John Bobbitt - The Snippy Story -jaksoa podcastista Murder With My Husband heti tabletilla, puhelimella ja selaimella. Disappointingly, the documentary doesn't have an interview with any of the comics who dined out on cheap dick jokes for months. In 1994, after she served a brief, mandated stint in a mental hospital, Lorena went back to her life as a manicurist. Rofe has interviews with many of the key figures in every bizarre part of this case, from the doctors who helped reattach John Wayne Bobbitt's penis to neighbors who testified at various trials to two members of each jury giving insight into their respective verdicts. “I’ll put myself through the jokes and everything as long as I can shine a light on domestic violence and sexual assault and marital rape,” she said. The black or the red car. Parts 2 and 3 seem drawn out. Because even though she didn’t want John, who continued to show up at her nail salon after the trial and still writes her love letters, to control her life, she knows that she cannot run from that phallic last name, not when you are Lorena in Manassas. Could benefit from some smarter cutting. Men, speaking from Charlie Rose’s table and Geraldo Rivera’s armchairs, made Lorena seem like an unsatisfied, unhinged wife who had dealt a ghastly blow in the gender wars. : Made in America” and saw the makings of something similar in Rofé’s project. As she recalls it, John Wayne Bobbitt used … I looked over at Lorena, her hands gripping the steering wheel at 10 and 2. “I grew up being told it was common knowledge that some crazy white lady cut her husband’s penis off in a fit of vengeance,” he said. Lorena Bobbitt and Joshua Rofe attends the Film Independent Presents ‘Lorena’ at ArcLight Hollywood in Hollywood, California February 6, 2019. “How can you regret something you didn’t mean to do?” she said. In a phone interview, John, who was in New York preparing to tape “The Dr. Oz Show,” said he hadn’t seen “Lorena” but he said the filmmakers had set him up to make him look bad. At one point, we drove along in silence. He raped her. She was incredibly young and still learning to express herself in her second language when the story exploded, and the passage of time has been kind to her. The crowd outside the courthouse during the trial. It premieres Feb. 15 on Amazon Prime. Basically, I don’t think I have anything to do with whatever he chooses to do with his life, you know, after the incident,” she said. YOUTUBE. The Hollywood Reporter. Pool photo by Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. It relies on news footage and interviews with Lorena, sitting in her living room. Although there are hints of it earlier, it's the fourth episode that finally gets to a substantive engagement with how domestic violence was treated in the early '90s, the number of states in which marital rape was either not criminalized or required a complicated and steep burden of proof. Peele devoured ESPN’s “O.J. The first episode, after all, follows small town policemen digging around a field for a missing penis. I don't doubt that you have to address and defuse the idea of the Bobbitt case as a punchline before you can get to the more provocative idea of the case as a snapshot of a nation in cultural flux. She later did hair and sold real estate. Unsolicited advice: If the hook of your documentary is access, don't start your story with clips showing how little exclusivity you have. “I was the subject of so many jokes in the ’90s and to me it was just cruel,” she said. John und Lorena Bobbitts Geschichte geriet zum Medienspektakel. “Lorena, right? 2:45 PM PST 1/29/2019 And while many women defended Lorena and wondered what John must have done to drive her to it, some feminists argued that she had hurt the cause, making the sisterhood look deranged. A documentary of her life, “Lorena,” will premiere on Amazon on Feb. 15. “She’s not that great looking.” Lorena did some press, but mostly resisted offers to turn their castration saga into a film or TV series. She attended her Catholic church regularly and went to community college where she met David Bellinger. When I mention Lorena, a four-hour Amazon documentary about Lorena Bobbitt from executive producer Jordan Peele, after the winces or laughter, I typically get three questions: 1) If the 15th anniversary of a mediocre film's release is worthy of an oral history in our nostalgia-based culture, surely the 25th anniversary of the penis amputation felt around the world is worth a documentary or three. 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