Movie #1763 ........................."Instinct"

Movie #1763 "instinct" ---- finally, the one I found most disturbing because of the subject matter and the way it was handled was this film.  Once again, I will quote from the Chicago Film Fest handbook..

"Charged with assessing inmates' eligibility for parole, psychologist Nicoline (Carice van Houten) becomes locked in a battle of wills with Idris (Marwen Kenzari), a charismatic serial rapist in this erotically-charged thriller.  Though he's convinced everyone he is  a reformed man, Nicoline suspects that Idris remains dangerous, and with each session between them, power dynamics shift --- just who is manipulating whom?  The answers remain elusive in this powerfully immediate yet nuanced study of gender politics and the complex nature of desire.  Dutch with subtitles.  98 minutes, 2019, rated R, Director:  Halina Reijn, the Netherlands."

I have  had good experiences with Dutch films --- but  this was truly a disappointment.  I saw the words "erotically-charged thriller" so I was ready for that and the subject matter, but I thought it would be more intelligent ---if she has a degree and some experience, I couldn't see her acting the way she did --- but then, I went back and forth with the idea that maybe she was baiting him , but the more I watched it, and we saw how damaged her life has been up until now, esp. with a weird relationship with her mother, I felt that wasn't the case .  So I got more and more fed up with her behavior -- it seemed outlandish, at times, and not believable.  And there was too much of that behavior -- maybe one scene when she falls for something he is dishing out to her , but not most of them.  Then, if he is such a serial rapist, he'd be better at what he does to get her to fall for him --- he befriends a rabbit.  But then in a few scenes, he brutally breaks its neck -- his behavior  isn't we'll planned like I would think this rapist needs to be to get her into his trap --- it was all bizarre, and I would have locked both people up for mentally ill --- and that might just be what the film was going for.  But I would think in this day and age, it should give the female some tools maybe to combat a serial rapist?  am I asking too much from a film?  By the end, I felt enough is enough and it was no surprise ---- in fact, I thought it could have ended more smartly a few times before --- a film shouldn't go on too long that the observer can think of better scenarios.  I give it a 1.