Filmfanatic

Besides being one of the most boring SVU episodes of all time, the basic plot line struck me as an obvious ripoff of “Death and the Maiden”, a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley, itself based on a play. I had no doubt as to the guilt of Miguel once I saw the similarities to the movie. Sigourney, a victim of torture under a brutal regime holds her supposed torturer hostage. Is she delusional or not? The man always played Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”; I seem to remember Lourdes bringing up a song she always heard being played(zoned out due to boredom). At one point in the movie the suspected torturer is threatened with being thrown off a cliff; Miguel on the window ledge....the movie was riveting, this episode, not so much.