The violence is so graphic and extends way beyond what's needed to make a statement, to the point that it seems to revel in the violence or tries to inflict some measure of the pain experienced by the protagonists in the viewing audience. The graphic intensity and length in which the violence was depicted overshadows the plot and the acting. If this was the intention it was successful.
Rapes lasting many many minutes in detail. Violent death of a baby along with sexual violence. This violence overshadows a very weak unremarkable story.
If an unremarkable plot was to underscore how life was traumatic and hopeless in early days of the British Invasion and occupation of Australia it succeeds. However violence makes for a boring and predictable story become nauseatingly long and painful.
I felt that I was not only visually violated but that I had wasted the time it took to watch the movie.
The violence depicted here can be related to so many current evolving conflicts. In this the movie succeeded.
If u feel like u want to be emotionally violated see this movie, which is as dark as they come.
Rapes lasting many many minutes in detail. Violent death of a baby along with sexual violence. This violence overshadows a very weak unremarkable story.
If an unremarkable plot was to underscore how life was traumatic and hopeless in early days of the British Invasion and occupation of Australia it succeeds. However violence makes for a boring and predictable story become nauseatingly long and painful.
I felt that I was not only visually violated but that I had wasted the time it took to watch the movie.
The violence depicted here can be related to so many current evolving conflicts. In this the movie succeeded.
If u feel like u want to be emotionally violated see this movie, which is as dark as they come.