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I cried
by Suzanne (movies profile)
Oct 31, 2009
To those who are touting the movie as a rape movie, I saw that as a very small part of what was going on with this child. The whole world was raping her and that was just one strangers manifestation of it. I also saw the rape as a metaphor for every child's loss of innocence. Her father was fallible (finally) her grandmother oppressive and her friend completely betrayed her. She's already lost her mother. She had no shoes. Nothing to shield her from the horrors of life. I agree with the previosu review. So many children are subjected to so many horrors. I thought this was a tasteful and poetic portrayal of one child;s experience with those horrors and I could not stop crying for the pain of it and the shame that all of it was seemingly so normal in the fabric of life there. I thought the snakes were a beautiful metaphor for the reality of her situation. And Dokota herself is captivating, worth watching no matter what. Perhaps the movie was too deep for the critics. I am surprised by the negativity. I thought the many layers were original yet believeable in the laying the fabric of this one family's life. I really loved the subtle story line of Elvis getting his music from the blacks and bringing soul to the white man. How wonderful that this process was told in the film through the painful growing up of a young white girl in the South, caught between worlds. |
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