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Anyone else feel sick to their stomach...

posted 9 years ago by jakenpk
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... after watching this movie?

Don't get me wrong I think it was very eye opening and well made, but as soon as the credits came up I felt like I needed to take a bath.

What message do you think the producers of this film were aiming to convey? I'm honestly not completely sure. If it was to inform us about what is going on in the world I think that's great, but the extreme violence I felt was too much and it took me out of the movie.

Thought?

Please don't begin by saying, "well aren't you ignorant..." because I am.

[–] jswhalen1 9 years ago

I'm not sure there's an overall message the producers are trying to send. It's a war movie, and much of it is based off of the civil conflicts that have been going on in Africa for a very long time. As for the "extreme violence", "war is," as William Tecumseh Sherman once sad, "Hell. There's no use refining it. The worse it is, the sooner it will be over."

[–] manco82 9 years ago

Ironically Sherman who said that never committed these kind of atrocities against the Confederate civilians. The atrocities would begin the Second Boer War(1899-1902) with the first concentration camps. Culminating of course in the Nazi extermination of Jews in WW2. Then later the Cambodian genocide in the mid 1970s. Then the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Now ISIS committing genocide against the Yazidi peoples in 2014-present.

It never ends.

[–] Dream_Cycle 9 years ago

"I saw terrible things... and I did terrible things. So if I am talking to you, it will make me sad... and it will make you, too, sad. In this life... I just want to be happy in this life. If I am telling this to you... you will think that... I am some sort of beast... or devil. I am all of these things. But I am also having mother... father... brother and sister once. They loved me."

[–] Bakezz 9 years ago

Go to www.liveleak.com
Open your farking eyes, this does not even scratch to surface of whats happening in the last 20 years alone, and the stuff today...

[–] tbew 8 years ago

You are one nasty little person! You need to go take a nap... And not wake up!! .... that wasn't very nice was it.

[–] Creasy47 8 years ago

If "extreme violence" takes you out of a movie, then I can't begin to imagine how you operate in the real world.

[–] jakenpk 8 years ago

It's the extreme, realistic violence that I find difficult to view. I've seen plenty of heavy films, but this one just hit a bit harder than usual. I finished it, just so you know.

I just find it disturbing and sad how messed up the world can be at times, and sometimes I'd rather not see all of those atrocities in the movies I watch. Implications can be just as powerful without the shocking aftermath being forced onto the screen. Just take Se7en, for example. A very disturbing and impactful film where we only see brief glimpses of each murder. It doesn't need to become a slasher film for me to understand the depth of the atrocities.

[–] Robert_222 8 years ago

I can see where you are coming from.

I absolutely loved this film. Everything about it...the acting, the characters, the cinematography, the amazing score....and the realistic violence. It definitely did not "take me out of" the film. But I must admit, I did get a little sick to my stomach near the end of the film. Images like that aren't easy to process for any human.

I've seen a ton of violence and gore in films whether they are from the horror, war, or action genres. But this is definitely one of the most intense films I've ever see. I would put it up there with Irreversible, Antichrist, Saving Private Ryan and Requim for a Dream.

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