Post by shp on Jan 6, 2010 12:18:49 GMT -5
Warning: This thread contains spoilers! Do not read if you're interested in watching the movie and haven't seen it before! Unless, you have love so powerful beyond control for children that you would rather not watch this movie in risk of having your heart shattered into a million pieces after knowing what happens.
Now, first off, I didn't really like this movie so much. I had wanted to see it after watching the previews, but never thought that it would be so devastating in points during the movie.
The story goes that a young woman goes off to work, after having promised her son she would've taken him to the movies that day, to a telephone company. When she gets home just before dark, the boy is nowhere to be found. For days she struggles to find him, and the police station are not doing their job (the whole point of the movie was to expose the LAPD when they were having bad people run it, in a sense). This was also based on a true story, meaning that most of everything in this movie really happened, if not all.
She decides to expose the police station for what they really are but ends up under their order in a psych ward with other innocent women that their men have either raped, was once married to, etc. Why she did this: they gave her a boy and tried to convince her that it was her son, but he was shorter and also circumsized, and she had known from the start it wasn't her son but the police would not listen.
Eventually, one of the police (he turns out to be a good guy, after all) who was working for the bad guy goes out in the desert on a call. He meets this guy out on the road and asks him about an address. He's given directions and upon arriving he finds a teenage boy that's illegally moved to the States from Canada to live with his uncle or cousin (I can't remember how they were related).
When he's taken to the courthouse for questioning and such, this other kid starts knocking on his chair, and it drives the teenager crazy. He shouts at the other boy to shut up. The good cop hears this and they start to find out something really bad, which has to do with the woman's missing son.
The bad man goes out with the teenager to pick up kids (convincing them that either their parents' been in a crash, and since the teen's there it's easier to fool them), and he takes them back to his farm where they are put in a chicken coop. Every now and then, and this part made me nearly throw up, (stop reading if you don't want to throw up), and every now and then, he would go and pick a kid, and take him into another room. He starts chopping him up. I can still hear the screams today and it's been a few months. If they are not dead when he's tired of it, he makes the teenager go in there and finish them off.
Fortunately, just before the good cop finds the teen, the rest of the kids (about four or five left from probably twenty), have escaped. The woman's son is supposedly alive because he went back and saved the boy, the very boy who tells the woman that her son might still be alive. If it hadn't been for her son, he would've been stuck on the fence and then killed because the bad guy was coming out.
This happened in 1929, so I'm sure that by now the woman and her son are reunited in a good place. Most of the children were scared to return to their parents, but I can't remember exactly why.
Now, this was what I would rate as all right, maybe at a 6/10. The acting was excellent, but they didn't have to include those screams or actually "play" them out. I hate people hurting and killing children for no reason, as I'm sure as everyone else, and I would NOT let my kids see this. If I wanted them to know just how dangerous people could be, I would just dare them to wake me up at the wrong time. lol I had to have some humor to try and get this off my mind.
Now, if this is too "graphic", just let me know and I apologize. I just thought I would talk about a "all right" movie and probably prevent others from hearing those screams. Ugh.
Now, first off, I didn't really like this movie so much. I had wanted to see it after watching the previews, but never thought that it would be so devastating in points during the movie.
The story goes that a young woman goes off to work, after having promised her son she would've taken him to the movies that day, to a telephone company. When she gets home just before dark, the boy is nowhere to be found. For days she struggles to find him, and the police station are not doing their job (the whole point of the movie was to expose the LAPD when they were having bad people run it, in a sense). This was also based on a true story, meaning that most of everything in this movie really happened, if not all.
She decides to expose the police station for what they really are but ends up under their order in a psych ward with other innocent women that their men have either raped, was once married to, etc. Why she did this: they gave her a boy and tried to convince her that it was her son, but he was shorter and also circumsized, and she had known from the start it wasn't her son but the police would not listen.
Eventually, one of the police (he turns out to be a good guy, after all) who was working for the bad guy goes out in the desert on a call. He meets this guy out on the road and asks him about an address. He's given directions and upon arriving he finds a teenage boy that's illegally moved to the States from Canada to live with his uncle or cousin (I can't remember how they were related).
When he's taken to the courthouse for questioning and such, this other kid starts knocking on his chair, and it drives the teenager crazy. He shouts at the other boy to shut up. The good cop hears this and they start to find out something really bad, which has to do with the woman's missing son.
The bad man goes out with the teenager to pick up kids (convincing them that either their parents' been in a crash, and since the teen's there it's easier to fool them), and he takes them back to his farm where they are put in a chicken coop. Every now and then, and this part made me nearly throw up, (stop reading if you don't want to throw up), and every now and then, he would go and pick a kid, and take him into another room. He starts chopping him up. I can still hear the screams today and it's been a few months. If they are not dead when he's tired of it, he makes the teenager go in there and finish them off.
Fortunately, just before the good cop finds the teen, the rest of the kids (about four or five left from probably twenty), have escaped. The woman's son is supposedly alive because he went back and saved the boy, the very boy who tells the woman that her son might still be alive. If it hadn't been for her son, he would've been stuck on the fence and then killed because the bad guy was coming out.
This happened in 1929, so I'm sure that by now the woman and her son are reunited in a good place. Most of the children were scared to return to their parents, but I can't remember exactly why.
Now, this was what I would rate as all right, maybe at a 6/10. The acting was excellent, but they didn't have to include those screams or actually "play" them out. I hate people hurting and killing children for no reason, as I'm sure as everyone else, and I would NOT let my kids see this. If I wanted them to know just how dangerous people could be, I would just dare them to wake me up at the wrong time. lol I had to have some humor to try and get this off my mind.
Now, if this is too "graphic", just let me know and I apologize. I just thought I would talk about a "all right" movie and probably prevent others from hearing those screams. Ugh.
