The nail salon, after all, had been Lorena’s refuge before and after the trial. Instead, Rofe keeps getting distracted by John's tawdry, frequently disgraceful use of the spotlight himself. “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. Did she regret giving him a modicum of fame and a small but steady lifelong income? 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. Reporters. The first episode is a lot of that, and then each subsequent episode gives more details on the relationship between Lorena and John and the years of psychological and physical abuse that she testified to (and he denied under oath). 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. But as John spiraled downward, Lorena found strength in the scars of her ordeal. This week's episode is the infamous story of John and Lorena Bobbitt. The frustration of Lorena is that there are many reasons the story is relevant today and worthy of closer examination and reexamination. She hugged me hello, coming up to my neck in heels, and I was struck at how warm and maternal she was. The crowd outside the courthouse during the trial. Doctors. Lorena Bobbitt severed the penis of her husband and … A documentary of her life, “Lorena,” will premiere on Amazon on Feb. 15. Lorena (2019) Published on February 17, 2019, by JPRoscoe - Posted in TV Shows 0. That is the story she tells in “Lorena,” a four-part, Jordan Peele-produced documentary that will debut on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 15. “We did a lot of interviews and the approach was often something like ‘Well, that’s what you feminists wanted all along.’”. 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. Lorena Bobbitt and Joshua Rofe attends the Film Independent Presents ‘Lorena’ at ArcLight Hollywood in Hollywood, California February 6, 2019. 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. Where are they now and how event changed things is the strongest aspect. I looked over at Lorena, her hands gripping the steering wheel at 10 and 2. 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. MANASSAS, Va. — Lorena is very matter-of-fact about the whole thing. [Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow and others on how #MeToo changed their lives.]. 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. After years of alleged abuse, Lorena explains why she did what she did on a new documentary … “I loved the way that used 25 years of hindsight to look at this case that we thought we all knew and I thought this spoke to gender dynamics in the way “O.J.” peeled back the layers of racial dynamics,” Peele said in a phone interview. 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. “I know I am still Lorena Bobbitt,” she said. Lorena identified with Tonya Harding and Monica Lewinsky. "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. No, it does not. 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. 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. My father-in-law has the biggest crush on you!” she said. 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. Twenty-five years on, Lorena Bobbitt goes by her maiden name Gallo and tells her side of the story in Lorena, a four-part documentary on Amazon. Sie wurde zur Witzfigur und litt unter der von Männern dominierten Presse. “I’m not a vindictive person because I told them where it was,” Lorena Gallo, as she is now known, said. by 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. 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. But Lorena doesn’t think about things like that. The first episode, after all, follows small town policemen digging around a field for a missing penis. “It would’ve been amazing. This is my home. “It was like, ‘Oh yeah, so now a lot of women are going to do this,’” remembered Katha Pollitt, who wrote about the trial for The Nation. “They didn’t understand. “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. Credit...Heather Sten for The New York Times. 'Lorena' Documentary “Recontexulizes” Story of Lorena Bobbitt | Sundance 2019. 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. Lorena Bobbitt, now 49, famously chopped off her partner's manhood in the 90s. By “them” she means the police who, sometime after 4:30 a.m., clutched their loins and went digging through the overgrown roadside grass for the missing member. 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. “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. Further down the road is the nail salon where she worked and fled to that night. 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. Lorena is a 2019 American true-crime docuseries about the 1993 assault and subsequent court case involving John and Lorena Bobbitt. The two were study partners and friends for years before they became romantically involved. She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, spotted the kitchen knife and was overcome from years of abuse. “They laugh,” she said several times during our afternoon together. “Lorena,” Peele told me, fits with his larger mission to make films that give voices to marginalized people, but it’s impossible not to acknowledge that the story has the dark, tragicomic underpinnings of a Coen brothers’ movie. John Wayne Bobbitt talking from his North Las Vegas home for the Amazon docu-series “Lorena.”. Many women reporters, the documentary makes a point of emphasizing, wanted to write about the Bobbitt … Nineties women who dared to … But I didn’t just mean did she regret committing the act. Those first three hours are tremendously frustrating because the two Bobbitt trials were already media circuses, hers televised in its entirety on Court TV. Peele devoured ESPN’s “O.J. Unsolicited advice: If the hook of your documentary is access, don't start your story with clips showing how little exclusivity you have. “I’d be lying to you if I said there’s not humor in this story,” Peele said. She wasn’t trying to disguise herself or anything, she said, “It’s like ‘oh, your roots are showing,’ so little by little I became blonder ….” And just like that, a straight iron and some hair dye and the scared young woman splashed on the cover of tabloids morphed into the sophisticated advocate who now sat across from me. “There is a third character to this story besides Lorena and John and that is us, society, and what we did with the information we had available to us,” Peele said. 2:45 PM PST 1/29/2019 (with correction to misstatement in the video. “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. She turned down $1 million to pose for Playboy. We forget about the string of witnesses at her trial who testified that they had seen bruises on her arms and neck and that she had called 911 repeatedly and that John had bragged to friends about forcing his wife to have sex. Meanwhile, in 2019, the case was back in the news, featured in an Amazon Prime documentary called Lorena. EMAIL ME 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. (He was acquitted.) All rights reserved. Editors: Allan Duso, Poppy Das, Morgan Hanner, Azin Samari I declined. 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. Lorena even opens with a Lorena being interviewed by Steven Harvey. This article is more than 1 year old. 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. “I was with a lot of women, a lot of women and none of them ever complained, except Lorena —” He paused. That is the first thing I noticed about her when we met. Terms of Use | “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. Only later did I realize that we had had the kind of easy conversation of manicurist and client. We talked about being moms and our naturally curly hair. 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”). The couple now have a 13-year-old daughter and live on a tidy street in a cream-colored brick house. She became a national joke, her suffering ignored by the male-dominated press. Executive producers: Joshua Rofe, Steven J. Berger, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Thomas Lesinski, Jenna Santoianni The four-part series premiered on February 15, 2019 on Prime Video. Fifteen minutes away, near Maplewood Drive, was the gravel-strewn field where she disposed of the detached penis out the driver’s side window. Could benefit from some smarter cutting. 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. 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. Venue: Sundance Film Festival (Special Events). 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. Television cameras follow Lorena Bobbitt into court in 1994. Daniel Fienberg Producer: M. Elizabeth Hughes 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. “A million dollars is a million dollars,” she said. She told him she was. Heaven help us, that's not a pun. Parts 2 and 3 seem drawn out. So, why did she throw it away? There, she said as she drove us around in her Kia on a recent afternoon, was the hospital where surgeons reattached John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis after she cut it off with a kitchen knife as he slept on the night of June 23, 1993. John Wayne Bobbitt testifies during the trial. FACEBOOK She never dated anyone else, she said, because, well, how can you date, really, when you are that Lorena? Lorena Bobbitt is of Ecuadorian descent, … On a sleepy night in 1993, Lorena Bobbitt sliced off her husband’s penis after years of abuse. 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. Why should he have the last laugh?” she said when I asked why she didn’t move away. Pool photo by Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. 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. 8.5 Overall Score. 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. For a woman who has been a punch line for most of her adult life, Lorena “Bobbitt” Gallo is a surprisingly sincere person. 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. “She was never abused, she was always the abuser and she cut off my penis because I was going to leave her,” he said. Or at least not these four hours. The black or the red car. Attorneys on both sides. And yes, that's a penis-on-ice joke and I should be ashamed. While I'm offering unsolicited advice to documentary filmmakers: Give some consideration to why you're using reenactments. What's shocking is how many people in positions of authority and respect are reduced to giggling and cracking wise when they talk about the Bobbitt case. It wasn’t long after the trial when a man she worked with at a salon offered to give her highlights. The documentary mostly unfolds in 1993, the dawn of Court TV and a proliferation of gossipy daytime talk shows. What you don't know about the tragic scandal... By Naomi Gordon. Lorena Bobbitt in New York on Feb. 4. I meant, did she regret making John Wayne Bobbitt a household name? “And Joanna.” After we discussed the allegations, he proposed we keep talking over dinner at the Empire Hotel where he was staying. In Rofé and Peele’s hands, the 24-hour news cycle becomes a voracious, multiheaded monster that eventually engulfs everything. “Lorena” ends with the number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, but the narrative itself doesn’t take a side. Who Really Gets Screwed?” an earlier column in Penthouse read.) He asked Lorena if she was O.K. with that. That is the story she tells in “Lorena,” a four-part, Jordan Peele-produced documentary that will debut on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 15. Disappointingly, the documentary doesn't have an interview with any of the comics who dined out on cheap dick jokes for months. 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 … “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'd give almost anything for Rofe to have grilled Howard Stern on the countless John Wayne Bobbitt interviews in which they chortled about Lorena's sanity and the details presented in the case. That was all the media, before now, before the Women’s March and the #MeToo movement, when we were all less evolved as humans, wanted to talk about. In 1994, after she served a brief, mandated stint in a mental hospital, Lorena went back to her life as a manicurist. 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. Again, she told me, there are only choices. John und Lorena Bobbitts Geschichte geriet zum Medienspektakel. That same year Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act. It just so happened that at the same time, a wave of movies, documentaries and podcasts (“I, Tonya,” “The Clinton Affair,” “Slow Burn”) had shined new light on other women engulfed in scandals in the 1990s. It’s his life. “I live here. Many in the media, including Ladies’ Home Journal and Gay Talese on assignment for The New Yorker, questioned whether it was an oxymoron. “This four-part docuseries from … That was the version of the story that Joshua Rofé, a documentarian who had made “Lost for Life,” about juveniles serving life sentences in prison, wanted to tell. Lorena Bobbitt on trial in Manassas, Va., in 1994. “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. It just takes too long to get there. 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. Then, in 1994, O.J. “I was the subject of so many jokes in the ’90s and to me it was just cruel,” she said. The Hollywood Reporter. Many of them are covered here. Simpson was arrested and later acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman. It happens to women,” she said. not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. “To me, regret is ‘Oh, I bought a black car instead of a red car’ when you don’t choose right,” Lorena said. 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. I asked. (He denied the allegations.) “They always laugh.”. She attended her Catholic church regularly and went to community college where she met David Bellinger. And there's more to it than that. 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. [Subscribe to our Movies Newsletter to find out about the latest releases and Critics’ Picks.]. “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. John and Lorena Bobbitt’s stories exploded into a 24-hour news cycle. 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. Is it just because you need filler footage to cut away to? “It was this red hot thing that everybody got wrong.”. 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. John and Lorena Bobbitt’s dueling narratives exploded in a ravenous 24-hour news cycle, igniting a renewed battle of the sexes. — AFP pic — AFP pic LOS ANGELES, March 21 — Mention the name Lorena Bobbitt and the reactions are all too predictable: The knowing snigger, the grimace that indicates pain combined with a protective gesture over the crotch area. Alan Hauge, Lorena's media representative, gives some of the more interesting interviews talking about how figures like Barbara Walters and Geraldo Rivera pursued their blanket coverage. Director: Joshua Rofe “That’s when I realized what happened to me could’ve happened to any woman in a desperate situation,” Lorena said. June 23, 1993, the lives of Lorena Bobbitt and her husband John Wayne Bobbitt became household names. 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. He was convicted and spent time in jail. 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. But he's not. She explained, again, what she told the jury in 1994. (She told me her weight because she had weighed 95 pounds in 1993, when John said she had assaulted him.) 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. Follow. 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. He raped her. Feminists threaten to castrate American men if Lorena Bobbitt convicted. “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 and John Wayne Bobbitt will be the subjects of tonight's ABC News 20/20. “It’s all made up and I’m tired of it,” John said. “I wasn’t in my conscious mind.”. Production company: Amazon Studios At one point, we drove along in silence. Before she agreed to put “the incident” back into the public’s imagination, Lorena talked to Peele, who explained to her that there would, inevitably, be comedy in this retelling. But I wasn’t raised that way.”, The filmmakers who approached her over the years never wanted to focus on the abuse, the story she really wanted to talk about. Now, as a documentary series takes on the story, she opens up about how that one night changed her life. David Ake/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Here's what you need to know about the divorced couple. She smiled politely and posed for the photo. That name you know, it’s very important here.”. The documentary about Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband's penis, is nearly here . In the years since the trial, he was arrested several times and served jail time for violence against two different women. “He can choose. Al Franken, as the character Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live, implored Lorena to apologize to John’s penis. I asked when she decided to go blonde. 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. : Made in America” and saw the makings of something similar in Rofé’s project. “Lorena, right? “How can you regret something you didn’t mean to do?” she said. 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. 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