This has to be one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. I literally had to close my eyes and plug my ears for long stretches while in the theater. I was also pretty close to throwing up when I left. The brutality in this movie is just unbearable. When unplugging my ears at one point I heard the line "but, Daddy, it's just a baby" referring to a small child basically being demolished by a mob.
Is this amount of violence appropriate given the incredibly violent event it portrays? I do not believe so. This movie is full of gratuitous violence that could just as easily have been insinuated. I think back to the Gone with the Wind scene at the railway station portraying the horror of war as it panned back to show more and more and more dead and wounded soldiers until the number is as far as the eye can see. We didn't need to see these men shot to feel the impact of this condemnation of war. This is a creative method of demonstrating the horror of violence. Rosewood is a cheap and uncreative method.
This incident is a horrifying one in the history of our country and deserves a telling that is a little more accessible. It should be a film that can be shown to teens and even older children. But, I consider this violence more obscene than any sexually explicit movie I have ever seen. Even the first twenty minutes of Private Ryan looked tame compared to this movie. This is an action/horror film. It is not a historical drama.
The people of Rosewood deserve a more creative telling of their story. As it is, this film will be soon forgotten because it cannot be used to teach those who need to understand.
Is this amount of violence appropriate given the incredibly violent event it portrays? I do not believe so. This movie is full of gratuitous violence that could just as easily have been insinuated. I think back to the Gone with the Wind scene at the railway station portraying the horror of war as it panned back to show more and more and more dead and wounded soldiers until the number is as far as the eye can see. We didn't need to see these men shot to feel the impact of this condemnation of war. This is a creative method of demonstrating the horror of violence. Rosewood is a cheap and uncreative method.
This incident is a horrifying one in the history of our country and deserves a telling that is a little more accessible. It should be a film that can be shown to teens and even older children. But, I consider this violence more obscene than any sexually explicit movie I have ever seen. Even the first twenty minutes of Private Ryan looked tame compared to this movie. This is an action/horror film. It is not a historical drama.
The people of Rosewood deserve a more creative telling of their story. As it is, this film will be soon forgotten because it cannot be used to teach those who need to understand.