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Interesting Story, Mediocre Movie


I found this story very interesting but I'm not a fan of this movie. The documentary I watched about it was much better than the movie, in my opinion. Anybody else feel similar?

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I think the reality of the situation was toned down a bit to keep the film within the boundaries of community respectability. It's a very difficult topic to discuss without coming off sounding like a ghoul. Those people suffered in ways that none of us will likely ever have a frame of reference to. You could easily take it from being a film about the human condition into one that is needlessly brutal and exploitive.

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Nah it’s a great movie. I’m sure it cuts many corners and if you’ve seen an uncompromising documentary then I can see how it might make the movie seem weak sauce by comparison, but it’s a good story, well told.

In fact, a new movie based on the same event is in production.

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