This Movie is SO Brutal that the Screening had Therapists Available

[@bribrichan1]

"Other than the Mormons, Utah is a beautiful place." I am a Utahn, born and raised. This is an accurate statement.

[@amberpage7936]

Man, I'm a Mormon but I'm from the UK. It's quite different over here from what I understand. American Mormons are hugely different. What's it like over there?

[@bribrichan1]

@@amberpage7936 Mormons from other parts of the states are different too. I know a bunch from other parts of the country, and they think Utah Mormons are weird. To answer what it's like: oppressive and stifling. I could go on and on, but the short version is that there is a LOT of social pressure. If you're not Mormon, be ready for everyone you know (friends, mormon family members, classmates, coworkers, your boss...) to regularly try to convert you and be upset or offended when you tell them no thank you. Mormons who don't follow the socially acceptable path set out for them come under a great deal of pressure and scrutiny. Graduate highly school, go on a mission (men are more pressured to do this than women), go to college (although men are more pressured to graduate than women because of the next part), get married in the temple (before the age of 25), start having kids immediately. Anyone who deviates has to put up with a lot of shit from people. I have some very dear friends who are an LDS couple, and they are constantly being told to start having kids, even though right now she litterally isnt healthy enough to safely have children. My brother and his wife "only" have two kids, and other ward members are pressuring them to have more, even though they only want two. Etc. Also, God help you if you are LGBTQ or a person of color.

[@amberpage7936]

Brianna Callan sheesh, that sounds awful! That’s honestly a way too extreme version of what our church actually preaches. I won’t give you an essay as you obviously get preached at too much by them but yeah, that’s not an accurate display of the real teachings that we uphold. I’m really sorry it’s like that over there! Like literally, one of our articles of faith states that we all have the right to worship what we want or not to! 🙄 geez I’m glad I don’t live over there! Thank you for explaining it to me and not being condescending or anything! I swear there are nice Mormons out there!😂

[@amberpage7936]

Brianna Callan AND ANOTHER THING! Like fair enough, we do have teachings against gay marriage as we believe it’s just between a man and a woman, but that doesn’t mean we get to be horrible about it! It’s their life not ours! And literally all our leaders and texts say to love people regardless of whether we agree with their choices/lifestyle/feelings! Ugh! Sorry, it just really infuriated me when people twist and corrupt bits of religion to suit their own agenda and use it as an excuse to be a horrible person! I apologise deeply on behalf of all of the rubbishy people! I hope that social pressure changes one day! Once again, thank you for explaining to me!

[@bribrichan1]

@@amberpage7936 Hey, thanks for listening! And yeah, it's article 11, right? A bunch of my friends and family are LDS and the only ones I've ever had issues with are the ones who were raised in Utah. I think that whenever one group of people is the vast majority in a given area, it can cause them to be unkind to what they think of as outsiders. One of my best friends (I think of him as another brother) is LDS. He and I disagree on a lot, but we still manage to treat eachother with love and respect. He's from California.

[@rohegarcia2802]

When you said this was made from the director of the Babadook, I was immediately sold.

[@AmandaTheJedi]

rohe garcia its VERY different from the Babadook though

[@rohegarcia2802]

@@AmandaTheJedi How do you rate the Nightingale in comparison to the Babadook?

[@AmandaTheJedi]

@@rohegarcia2802 They're so completely different that I don't think I can really compare the two or even rate them compared to one another. Babadook is this psychological experience but everything in the Nightingale is real and brutal. Babadook is much more viewer friendly

[@rohegarcia2802]

@@AmandaTheJedi I would never use the words "viewer friendly" to describe the Babadook, so the fact that you think it is in comparison to the Nightingale excites me even more. I'm going to see it opening day just to get the chance to see it with the biggest crowd possible.

[@MaleTears]

@@rohegarcia2802 Babadook isn't normie-friendly, but isn't gory or really scary.

[@kujo1372]

I hope you are getting paid by the studio because you just sold this film to a lot of people. Nice video. Do more reviews.

[@candypietravels]

so true

[@porte-majestuoso]

KuJo13 True

[@chrissyandjoey28]

KuJo13 of course she is lol

[@randomguy6679]

@@chrissyandjoey28 What makes you say that?

[@castanzofranzman2013]

@@chrissyandjoey28 movie reviewers don’t get paid by the movie. And if they do they have to disclose that in the video

[@UnsuspectingCommenterPassingBy]

I just watched this two weeks ago and I really understand why it’s different from other “brutal” movies. Its cruelty doesn’t come that much from the graphic violence as much as it does from the emotional factor. It’s not blood or the already uncomfortable situations that scar you, it’s watching the characters suffer and no one doing anything about it. The acting is so good, you can feel their pain like it’s yours and makes you feel furious and powerless because abuse, slavery, and injustice are not only something that has happened throughout history, but something that’s still happening all around the world. It forces the viewer to face a reality a lot would rather think of as a distant realization, when it’s in fact just part of the human nature.

[@Zeverinsen]

It's not a part of human nature though, and that really makes it all a lot worse. The seemingly never ending violence most likely stems from the very first agricultural revolution and the beginning of "This thing is mine, and I will fight you for it".

[@ayyylmao101]

Gale Wolstenholme Your words make the film sound fascinating, in a horrifying way. I can't wait to watch it. Side note: Your username is cool.

[@lokilockness2970]

In a way it is mine I’m Aborigonal this pain is things I see to this day

[@minashortcakes5670]

What scared me the most was that the plot could have easily happened irl in the past

[@nicholasfitzgerald585]

@@Zeverinsen "this thing is mine and I'll fight you for it" started at the dawn of time. It's very much nature

[@lizziepadalecki8116]

The only movie I couldn't finish from pure horror was Hereditary. The woman who plays the mother was so convincing in her grief-stricken screaming and wailing that it made me cry from pure terror. I felt like my soul was being ripped out. She reminded me so much of my mom and it made me think of how she would react if my sister or I died. It was soul-crushing. Her-wrenching is the exact term. So so so fucked up. I ended up sobbing for twenty minutes straight in my best friend's lap. So if you want to ruin your whole week, watch Hereditary.

[@jafarsindria8505]

It frightened me for weeks. Easily one of the best horror movies ever made. The one movie i couldnt watch to end was the human centepede 2 ...

[@Turbuggy]

Hereditary was the one and only horror movie that absolutely terrified me to the core. I was fucked up over it for probably a month.

[@mackenziesavage7135]

I, age 17, had to spend the night in my 21 year old siblings room out of pure fear of being alone. Couldn’t lookup into any high ceiling or in my rear view mirror at night for a month.

[@messybrains9346]

Hereditary is the one movie that still fucked me up over a year later

[@randomgirl3492]

I really enjoy scary things, and creepy things, and things of all the sorts. I love scary stories. I can stand horror, but there are some occasions where I cant stand the characters horror, their grief or suffering. It was part of the reason why I was completely emotionally unable to watch the first IT after the first scene. Sometimes seeing peoples pain and fear is too much for me, it tears me up. So I get what you mean.

[@meligoth]

So humans are capable of committing very horrible things? Welcome to Earth

[@ChristUponus]

I don't understand why they make such a big deal out of insignificant bilge...

[@ChristUponus]

@Repomeister Hey don't go insulting my kind buddy.

[@ChristUponus]

@Repomeister As long as you know not to insult the hivemind

[@teas9892]

@Repomeister Referring to human beings as a hivemind is an incredibly unhealthy mindset. Work on your misanthropy. And if you can't improve yourself and hate human beings so much, stop talking to and about human beings. The world is already dark enough as it is. Don't add to it.

[@teas9892]

@@ChristUponus Referring to human beings as a hivemind is an incredibly unhealthy mindset. Work on your misanthropy. And if you can't improve yourself and hate human beings so much, stop talking to and about human beings. The world is already dark enough as it is. Don't add to it.

[@hatandbeardmedia5925]

The Nightingale is a film that is upsetting because of the context of the violence rather than what you see. The thing that really resonated with me in regards to this one was that it actually is very authentic to Australia's colonial history. While it doesn't depict actual events, they mirror the sort of things that Australian history is littered with. It is an unfiltered, unflinching look at the nastiness that Australia was built on. Your review reflects a lot of the feelings I had when watching it so it's very interesting to see a perspective that isn't just sensationalism. This film IS brutal, but not in the way mainstream audiences are used to.

[@sugarcakezz]

duh duh

[@johngoras73]

You should check out Mad Dog Morgan. It's from the mid 70s, had Dennis Hopper as the lead.

[@thisiselks]

Thank you. This is EXACTLY what I was thinking. Yes, the occurrences in the movie are horrific, but the real horror is the reality of British imperialism and it’s affect on the aboriginal culture. The reality of the brutality is more shocking than the actual script.

[@robertfrench6947]

Van Diemens land was much more authentic, this movie was contrived and just shoved all the cliches down your throat without any nuance.

[@apimpnamedslickback7115]

@duh Of course I am. Trust me. I'm a doctor.

[@codybasore2747]

as soon as you said it was the same director as the Babadook, I knew I would never watch this movie. I slept with the lights on for at least a week after I saw the Babadook. I was like 27.

[@starlighteuu]

personally was interesting but not scary where i have nightmares. lol ive watched too much but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good movie.

[@jontonian]

What ! Really? Come on....

[@belleniiut6034]

I envy you to be scared by that age. Horror movie for me are entertainment. Babadook was a cool take and psychological way to see human mind.

[@yougotgamesonyourphone6947]

How? That movie was garbage

[@TheGoodContent37]

I'll cure the fear of all of you that got scared by Babadook: The movie was not about a monster or demons, it was a metaphore about depression. All the movie does is talk about how depression can get in if you let it and how you can beat it because it is powerless without you. At the end you can coexist with it. I immediately got that after 20 or so minutes from the beginning and loved it till the end but my girlfriend was scared to death by it, then I just explained to her the metaphore and immediately she felt relief and not scared anymore. Just as depression, once you identify it it loses power. Like all those stories where you need to name a demon to defeat it. Perhaps only people like me that had real struggles with depression understood inmediately the message and normal happy people like my girlfriend only got scared.

[@paragoncumulus6636]

The early disturbing scenes are truly awful but the extreme brutal racism depicted later in tbe film was the worst part for me. This film is a history lesson that I feel although truly shocking in it's realistic tone, is only the tip of the ice berg of how truly brutal it really was.

[@carolynabbott888]

Paragon Cumulus There were decent people there as well you know but that wouldn't make a very good movie I guess

[@bluester7177]

@@carolynabbott888 Yeah, there are always some decent people, it doesn't take away from the ones that weren't decent, humans can be fucking awful and this movie is just an account of some of the shitty things humans did in the past.

[@jokerzbabe13]

The message of Nightingale was that the elite will always take advantage of the poor/vulnerable no matter the race. Clare and her family are white, but Hawkins does not care, and treats her and her family the same as he treats the aboriginal people. He treats them both as if they were less than the mud on his boots, and he does whatever the hell he wants. His STATUS is what protects him, not JUST his race. I am not ignoring the racism in the film, as it is an important part, but they want you to understand that the elite will treat poor white people as bad as racial minorities.

[@jokerzbabe13]

This is just how I viewed the movie, not an objective fact.

[@una877]

@@jokerzbabe13 I definitely agree that the movie was about how power corrupts humans and makes them capable of committing inhuman atrocities, BUT it wasn't about power in the abstract, it very clearly criticized specific power structures of race and patriarchy, as well as status as you say. Both protagonists suffer greatly - one for race, one for gender, both for status. But, this still isn't equal as we see Clare suffers a more personalised horror of her family being murdered, but Mangana's whole community has been destroyed/genocided. My point is that white people weren't treated 'just as bad as racial minorites' on a societal level. Look at Australia today, Aboriginal people still suffer greatly because of this of the lasting impacts of colonisation while nowadays Clare's Irishness would not carry the same generational oppression because she's white. I think this movie is so important for clearly identifying the subtleties of these layers of oppression. Genius cinema.

[@cri6766]

I low-key want to watch the movie out of curiosity but I know I will regret it.

[@redacted5078]

CRI same

[@hmuz8388]

it really isn't that scary nor a "good" movie for that matter

[@chocchip187]

you wont regret it, but it is sad and an important movie

[@LilVeehive]

Same here, like I'm 16 so she did say I shouldn't and at the same time I'm a crybaby and easily disturbed that i can't even finish Hereditary. (but I did watch Green Inferno like twice, the first with classmates, the 2nd by myself and it was at the end, but was obviously really disturbed) I'm super freakin curious and they did say it was more brutal not for the goriness but because of the context so that shts scary. Maybe I'll watch it, some day.

[@x11bravoant53]

Its pretty boring

[@xoMALxoPINEAUxo]

I mean yeah, this is literally colonialism to a T. This movie was probably about as accurate a depiction as people could handle...... however I feel like if it was EXACTLY the way colonialism happened, it would probably be 10X more brutal to show the REAL REAL shit.

[@Zeverinsen]

It's really a shame that we try to sensor the bad parts of history as much as we do today, because if we shield ourselves from the bad, we will never learn from it and all the people that suffered will have done so in vain. People were discriminated against in the worst ways possible, they were kidnapped, sold, abused, tortured and murdered - And that's something we must never forget, even if we want to.

[@danjo2080]

These things are still happening. We elect the people that perpetuate it. If we think of it only in the past we have already forgotten.

[@sarahperkins6421]

Downplaying the brutality of colonialism is one part of how we get modern day white supremacists. They will justify colonialism on the premise that white people were just doing everyone else a favor out of the generosity of their lily white souls. Because of our current first world conveniences, this makes the subjugation of people of color completely justified according to them. In other words, if it wasn't for colonialism, we wouldn't have these nice things. It's essentially like trying to justify a rape resulting in an unwanted pregnancy on the premise that babies are cute. Once you start to notice politicians and popular conservative figure heads sugar coating hate crimes and demonizing the victims of these atrocities, you will see this rhetoric over and over again.

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

I'm an American double majoring in anthropology and gender studies and there are just innumerable stories and histories and possible, highly realistic stories from our history that I think should be made into films, very carefully, to raise awareness - and also completely understand 100% why they haven't been made. It's not just that the people who have the right to tell those stories have not had the platform, or that it would be an incredibly difficult task to offer a nuanced, honest portrayal which does not present a heritage which seems to be exclusively of pain (when that narrative is already a problematic component of our mainstream sociocultural view), it's also that it would be so incomprehensibly hard to make and watch. Some individuals and communities resorted to infanticide to prevent their children suffering what they did. Let that sink in. No matter how bad you ever thought colonialism was or is, it was or is unimaginably worse than an outsider could ever possibly imagine. Self included. Obviously I'm not saying that those stories should not be told or made into movies - we need more mainstream awareness! TLDR I agree. If it were still more accurate, it would be still more brutal. That's probably why there's not more of this type of content, after the obvious "history written by the victor" fuckery.

[@nattaloane]

I'm an Australian and I 100% agree. Our ancestors raped, and massacred the Aboriginal people, as well as our own convicts. It was a really messed up time, I guess that's why this movie didn't shock me that much, it was just a realistic description of historical facts, I've read about everything that happened to these characters, happening to real people in history. I can understand people who have been the victims of rape or extreme racism or who have family that these things have happened to feeling overwhelmed and needing to walkout, but otherwise, it's nothing that hasn't been shown in movies before and honestly wasn't a movie I feel would cause someone to vomit or walk out on. It's brutal sure, but not unexpected if you know anything about colonial history.

[@grouchypseudopod354]

My partner and I watched this in a theatre, I thought I had given her the necessary context, but I clearly hadn't, partially because I had only read about it, but I had a solid recommendation from a professor I really respect, and I liked the babadook, so I thought it is just a movie. It isn't. We didn't say anything whatsoever for the next two hours. We walked to a coffee shop, my partner hid in the bathroom and cried I stared at the table and straight up SHOOK. It's not that this is a more creatively violent film than anything you've seen before, it's that the horrific events happened. It's that too an extant, this still happens. The monster isn't a slasher, it's racism, classism, and colonialism. It's real things that people in privileged positions want to look away from.

[@yung_bumble]

I was expecting a kind of gritty, poignant historical drama when I clicked on this on Netflix. Holy. Shit. I was completely destroyed and blown away by this film. It was simultaneously the hardest thing I've ever watched, but one of the best - the story puts you into the character's shoes in a way I've never experienced before. It was terrifying, gripping, and incredibly cathartic in many ways. Definitely do not recommend for everyone. This movie has stuck with me since I watched it, and the final image is something that is seared into my brain.

[@badbittyerick]

what country is it on netflix for?

[@eldermillennial8330]

Andrew Mcfarlane Looking back, that sort of perception is why the “Blair Which Project” was so successful. All the online propaganda and the Mockumentary just had to make you seriously consider that it MIGHT be real. It made all the difference; my dad saw it without being exposed to any of that, and he walked out halfway through demanding his money back. He simply could not imagine why I found it so scary, yet refused to bother with the websites or the fake documentary, making it impossible to explain. But, yeah, if I hadn’t seen any of that, the film by itself would have seemed boring and stupid. It only works IF you can be at least half fooled into thinking it was real. Knowing, or Very strongly suspecting, something horrific to have been true, to have actually happened, makes it SO much worse.

[@carlaventura1056]

The final image?

[@aliciabell6688]

@@carlaventura1056 yes i want to know what it is too.

[@SquirrelNutkins]

That’s exactly how I felt. Whilst I felt so upset it was also, as you say, cathartic.

[@Sayerservante]

I'm pretty sure some of those ppl who walked out, especially the ones who almost ran out, experienced similar trauma in their lives with the main character(s) of the film.

[@lokilockness2970]

Or were Aborigonal like me

[@snybies]

From what i can deduce i guess i would also be triggered by the movie.

[@joeyj6808]

Colonialism an imperialism are just that brutal - even today. Maybe we nee more movies like that to wake people up to reality. Life isnt an Avengers movie.

[@sugarcakezz]

Joey J we definitely don’t need to get ppl riled up about something we can’t change sadly:/

[@emh.1178]

samler pill- The Vietnam War was stopped because of public outrage and horror, showing people the horrors of imperialism can absolutely cause a change. And remembering those horrors can keep them from happening again. I believe that's the point OP was making

[@destinydavidson1524]

@@sugarcakezz revolution bro. Eat the rich. ACAB. workers rise up the only thing you have to lose us your chains

[@sugarcakezz]

It was a great movie. But I really hated “that part” and though I didn’t wanna watch anymore but I already paid for it. I have a son and I got really depressed.

[@PongoXBongo]

@@destinydavidson1524/videos That typically ends with the oppressed becoming the new oppressors. "They deserve it" or "give them a taste of their own medicine", just makes you as bad as them.

[@thecryptidGrey]

This gets even worse when you've actually been to the places in this film. I'm a very empathetic person, and regularly visit Tasmania to see family. Going to places like Port Arthur is bad enough, but when you're just walking in the bush and suddenly see resemblances to scenery in this film, which is, y'know, everywhere... Damn. Hits you like a sack of bricks just how real that actually is.

[@Teganandthejays]

And the spirits that are still there .

[@tiger832]

damn, this little aussie movie is f**ked up. I might go watch The Human Centipede to cheer myself up. A+

[@jackieblue1267]

It's not at all. It's just what happens during wars or things like colonisation.

[@122hsrfe]

@@jackieblue1267 war and colonization is fucked up, what do you mean lol

[@garystinten9339]

@@122hsrfe I think they mean by saying it's fucked up.. it's not very good to take on.

[@everest7719]

ha, I unintentionally watched both on the same day. I started today watching the second human centipede then watched the second conjuring movie and ended with this

[@rickardkaufman3988]

@@122hsrfe Watch Come and See. It's way better and horrifying than your typical war film like Saving Private Ryan.

[@speccysquaregolike9629]

I haven't seen it, but you talking about it being brutal is extremely accurate. My people were treated as if they were animals, but I don't even think that animals were treated that badly. It's stuff that needs to be talked about, because people don't know enough about it. When I was in primary school, I asked my history teacher why we didn't talk about Aboriginal slavery and how they were treated and she didn't really have an answer for me. The books we read about it in primary school kind of glossed over the fact that these inhumane things happened and it's sad, honestly. I think in a way, movies like these can be educational (for adults, as least. Even some adults don't know what went down and that's even worse)

[@lokilockness2970]

I don’t know where you are from I’m NSW Australian and we covered slavery and a lot more, I’m Aborigonal but I won’t be watching this film

[@katherinemorelle7115]

Loki Lockness I’m from Qld. It definitely wasn’t covered in my schooling (the 90s through time early 2000s). My daughter (12) has had some covered, but none of the really bad stuff. I know so many (white) Aussies who have no bloody idea, and I think that’s a platform for the building of white supremacy and ongoing oppression, all the while they still say “it wasn’t that bad”, “it was a long time ago, get over it” (wasn’t that long ago!), “if it wasn’t the Brits it would’ve been someone else”, “hey, you get iPhones now! All better!” It’s pretty awful. Maybe if they’d (we’d) been taught the actual history of our country, and how recent some of these things are, there would be less of it.

[@Teganandthejays]

Primary school isn't the place to discuss brutal slavery... highschool ya.

[@Stephanie-xz7qd]

Kids in primary school either wouldn’t fully understand that or would be traumatizied by it. Slavery should be teached about in middle and high school imo

[@kanga1820]

Neartmhor yeah QLD is pretty backward compared to NSW when teaching the REAL history of Australia in schools. Myself and my kids have been fortunate to be educated by our Indigenous friends and their families rather than depend on schools in QLD. My Kids became part of their friends families, beautiful accepting culture that I owe a lot to for teaching my kids how to live, enjoy and honour the Country instead of destroying it.

[@billd3356]

Just saw this after your review of "Cats". Therapists for an audience in 2019. The last time this happened was 46 years ago at the showings of "The Exorcist". I can only image what is in "The Nightingale"! I'll put it in my Netflix queue. Thank you.

[@Byron5429]

Honestly it's not that bad.

[@hauntedhotel8565]

Cats should have gotten therapists for the audience

[@suavecito6114]

It’s on Netflix ?

[@Kaison.]

Suavecito its on hulu

[@speccysquaregolike9629]

@Vicodyn Meek? In what way and which movie is this concerning?

[@phoenixmoon9116]

Colonialism. And they acually pretend that it helped the colonized.

[@phoenixmoon9116]

@S C Im not sure if you are aware of this but stealing land and destroying our earth and annihilating people is BAD M'KAY? All Holocaust are BAD. They aren't helped because they are DEAD or traumatized at the hands of psychopaths.

[@dxcSOUL]

S C Facts: This doesn’t justify genocide. Thise advancements you mentioned were supposed to help ppl. Do u not see the irony here?

[@phoenixmoon9116]

@@dxcSOUL yeah, I think the only people it was supposed to help were the savaged colonist.

[@bluester7177]

@S C the native people didn't ask for any of that and most of them didn't benefit from it and a lof of their descendants are still worse off than the people who oppressed them, so no, none of these things make it okay or justified.

[@liamwilbur1897]

HA! Dude, I'm 5th generation American whose family came over during the Famine. I never felt "American" enough, and inherited a starvation phobia. I also inherited my family's... um... "political fervor," shall we say, and a tendency to get seriously *pissed* over injustices like the systemic and rampant institutional racism problem over here. I run my keyboard to exhaustion with passionate "essays" in comments sections and found out that a lot of my relatives were notorious for doing the same thing (and that they came from the same town in Co. Limerick as Stephen Colbert's). 😂😂😂 My great grandpa was separated from his brothers and sisters and sent to Protestants when his parents died. He didn't remember *anything* about his original family, aside from his siblings' and parents' names and where they came from. I grew up in Wisconsin, which was predominantly settled by Scandinavians, and both sides of my family are full of Irish names (Mostly. Wilbur is English). I had no idea why that was so different when my teacher in 4th grade had us do one of those stupid Family Tree things when we learned about the Pilgrims and shit around Thanksgiving. After that, I got obsessed with helping my grandma solve her dad's "family mystery." I learned why we had a fear of starvation, a drive to keep improving our education, why we didn't ever talk about Catholicism, and why it made grandma sad if we did. The "intergenerational trauma" makes a lot of sense, because the stories we will tell our kids and grandkids will still hold the original emotion that *we* felt when our parents and grandparents told them to us while infusing them with the original emotions as well. It also effects certain habits and way of doing things specifically unique only to *your* family. Like always feeding guests right when they arrive, sending them off with food, or hording a crate or two of canned stuff and non-perishables "just in case." All I'm saying, in this pretentious fucking babble, is... ancestral memory and grief is very real and shouldn't be brushed off as unimportant or superficial.

[@wesk7346]

Great review. Spot on with the description. The gore was pretty bad, but it's still nothing compared to historical records, e.g. the journal from the priests who witnessed the brutality in the Pacifics and the Americas.

[@ccutehoney]

Wes K I am currently writing my dissertation of the abuse of aboriginal women and the records that they have what Columbus and his men did. Is probably the worst things i have even read in my entire life.

[@KateeAngel]

@@ccutehoney native women still go through hell in parts of North America. Even recently there were cases in Canada of forced sterilisation and such. Not to mention the missing indigenous women

[@Jane-oz7pp]

Hey, this is about Australia for once, take it home seppo.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

@@KateeAngel Canada, Australia and the US never stopped their respective genocides, they just rebranded them.

[@crimsonffire]

My brother went to see trainspotting when it came out, said they checked ID and had two ambulances outside, people were freaking out, fainting getting sick ect. So I'd believe that a film can have a serious effort on someone. Hope those people were ok afterwards. Thanks for honest feedback

[@notamused3715]

At Trainspotting? Exept for the bit where the little baby died, that was a black comedy with some tragic bits to me and most of the people I know. Where was this happening? Scottish heroin addicts aren't THAT frightening!

[@crimsonffire]

Was in Dublin Savoy cinema that my brother went to see it, he said few people fainted or got sick think the baby dieing was awful and got to a lot of people and the toilet scene , but him tripping out and seeing the baby on the ceiling was pretty messed up as well oh and the sheet scene , but I remember him saying he didn't know why there was two ambulances outside of the cinema till after he watched it. 1st time either of us had heard of something like that been needed for a film you know. But you take those scenes out and it is just that a dark comedy but those scenes are what brought it to a level you would never expect good bad or indifferent it is still been talked about to this day.

[@sprinklesandwrinkles]

Se saw that film in 9th grade with school.

[@91Vault]

the baby scene is one of the most disturbing I've ever seen because of simplicity, there's no monsters or horror or anything...just the simple fact that such a thing can happen in the most mundane setting for the most mundane reason

[@andysmith5806]

@@notamused3715 As a heroin baby myself I found the baby scene incredibly difficult to watch.

[@thamirisferreira1]

as a half native brazilian girl I don't think I'm strong enough to watch this without breaking down because I KNOW how this story of oppression against native people happened in Brazil in a very similar way (and it still happens when we are murdered on a daily basis and there's no investigation because our own government wants to get rid of us) BUT thank you for your review! Maybeeeee I will watch it idk

[@horseenthusiast9903]

I've got to say, from the sounds of it this sounds like a very important film. Colonialism was and is incredibly brutal, and while the victims of it have to know these sorts of realities their whole lives, most of the people who come from the colonizers don't really have to confront it in their daily lives. But it still hurts people greatly today. To have a movie that reflects this unflinchingly, I think, is incredibly valuable for educating the descendants of colonizers on why colonialism is a problem that we're still all dealing with. Yes, it is that severe. Countless people have died of it in awful ways I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. To not be taught that it happened, I think, is an insult to their memory.

[@nobodycaresmeimei]

I watched this movie a week ago and I am still thinking about it. Being British, I have some idea of what they did to aboriginal Americans/Australians and the like. Even the Irish. But I have never hated a character like the soldier more and had more heartache for a charatcer more than I did for Claire. I can't explain it any better than, this film just hurts to watch. Not even for the brutality of it, but for the setting and what that means.

[@SEReid-rz5bm]

I was really intrigued by the trailer and I *love* the Babadook so I was all excited to see this, but now I'm not so sure. I have no problem admitting that it might be too much for me. I can handle a lot, but just reading some of the plot synopses I'm thinking probably nope. Thanks for making this video on it!!

[@ryanfrieman733]

@Metallic Palate great movie!!

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

Nothing wrong with knowing what you can handle. You could wait for when it's released on DVD or streaming.

[@randomhuman3064]

@Paul Harris no :(

[@MiguelThinks]

@The Bloodbender I mean, it can be disturbing and be good cinema lol. People thought Passion of the Christ was disturbing because of the Jesus torture porn.

[@MiguelThinks]

on the same boat with you. As much as I enjoy certain violence, for me, it's the context. I cannot handle rape and certain heinous acts of violence against vulnerable people, especially vulnerable women. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the only exception. But even then, only in small doses.

[@spencerluther6485]

You convinced me to watch it, and afterwards scream-cried for half an hour. Genuinely one of the best films in cinema history, and I don’t know if I’ll ever recover

[@woolypuffin392]

For me a very disturbing scene was from "Mother!" were strangers start storming into her home and destroy everthing she loves and worked for. And the Babyscene made me almost leave.

[@unicorntears6179]

I cried at the end of Snow Piercer, this is a hard pass.

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

Oh yeah! Chris Evans did such a good job in that movie. They all did really. But the discussion of the babies still sticks with me. He sold that.

[@InsaneLaughter01]

Wait, Snow piercer? Really? I guess I have a way higher tolerance then. It’s very rare for a movie to freak me out so bad I stop watching.

[@ol7980]

i cried at the end of Snow Piercer, but i watched it again in a more casual setting and it didn’t phase me as much. desensitization at play?

[@swtsarakc]

Why?

[@gypsyassassin2004]

A part of Ireland's history I know VERY well. Just the phrase "Van Diemen's Land" was enough to scare people. Tasmania was BRUTAL. As usual, great video, ATJ ... Will DEFINITELY be going to see this.

[@MataNataM]

LOVE the digimon plushies in the back

[@Storyteller2093]

Digimon digital monsters digital champions ☺️

[@DeathGodRiku]

@@Storyteller2093 Tsunomon digivolve to...Gabumon!

[@Storyteller2093]

@@DeathGodRiku Yes 😍☺️

[@Storyteller2093]

Dig..Dig..Dig.. Digital Monsters I love Digimon 😍☺️

[@KittyPurri]

Warms my heart seeing people still loving Digimon!

[@TheJohnnyCalifornia]

Fun fact on the brutality inherent to penal colonies of the time: had America not won independence from Britain, there would likely have been far fewer prisoners sent to Australia, so the Revolutionary War accelerated colonization of that continent. A common practice of ship captains transporting prisoners was to keep the food the Crown provided for the prisoners to sell in the colonies and make extra money off the enterprise. However, the journey from England to Australia was much longer than to the American colonies, so many, many prisoners simply starved to death. To solve this problem, the Crown changed its payment practices. Instead of paying shippers in England for every prisoner they took onboard, the ship captains were to be paid in Australia and only for every prisoner who walked off the ship unaided. Immediately, prisoners pretty much stopped dying on the journeys.

[@dhan07404]

Amanda: we are going to take it a little bit lighter today Also Amanda : let's talk about the nightingale today possible one of the most disturbing films of the last decade

[@darthtaiter]

Thank you Amanda. Thank you for the warning. I'm still very interested in watching the Nightingale, but I do like to know what kind of emotional landscape I'm entering and this sounds like some serious ground to explore. I appreciate the heads up.

[@ArturGlass.C]

Very true. Like if you prepare to the worst you can actually handle very disturbing things way more easily. It's a little bit like in a horror movie when you see the guy behind the main character 1 minute before he actually kills the dude. Btw if you want more specific warnings. I didn't see the movie but from what I gathered the very disturbing scene involve atrocities done to children and especially babies. Like crushing their heads and/or decapitating them. That way that's like really specific you know what to except. I'm guessing there's way more emotional weight in the movie tho which is why it's so disturing.

[@darthtaiter]

@@ArturGlass.C yes, absolutely, I dont mind watching emotionally heavy movies as long as they are really well made and the violence in them is purposeful rather than merely for shock value, but it really is good to be prepared, and the ads I've seen for this film in particular really dont even hint at the idea that it would be the emotional hammer-blow that this film sounds like.

[@calebgoodman2076]

You know... not only did you make me want to see a movie that will make me test my willpower but also made it so if I ever get my book ideas out I would make separate versions for content reasons. This actually helped out Amanda. Thanks!

[@lordodysseus]

The nightingale wasn't showing anywhere in Canada as far as I could tell so I bought it about 3 hours ago and I only got 12 minutes in before I had to turn it off. Anyone who's seen it will know what I'm talking about.

[@amandabbentes]

i hope you guys understand that colonization never ended. it’s still happening, in third world countries. read Open Veins Of Latin America. help indigenous communities. the government is still trying their best to erase their culture and their people. do something with your privilege 🙏🏻

[@Katspearl]

Speaking Truth voting and calling politicians. or perhaps more manageable, telling people around you about it

[@Stephanie-xz7qd]

Katspearl all those things arent really gonna help people that live in a whole other continent than you tbh

[@ipman127]

@@Katspearl politicians are the real villains for the most part

[@MyChannel773]

not just third world countries - look at how terribly native/indigenous people are treated in the us and canada

[@xBrii333x]

Sigh. The looming specter of colonialism persists, despite how little people really gain from it. This shit has to stop.

[@RGld-jg8rs]

I grew up in Australia. When I was in year 10, 16yrs old. My school conducted an extra curricular excursion to an Aboriginal community center. I volunteered to go mainly to skip class. One of the community heads told us a story about a young aboriginal girl who was used as a sex slave. She was chained up by the collar like a dog outside a brothel. Customers would pay money to the bar owner, they would be given the key to her collar, take her out to rape her and then bring her back and returned the key. One of the most horrific parts is at the end when the community head said, that any single person could have just set her free after receiving the key. But none did. It's been something stuck with me for so many years. Bcs of colonialism the aboriginal population has been decimated. In my city you're more likely to see Asians or south Americans than Aboriginals. I never had an aboriginal friend until I was in uni. She came from the country side. She told me how she left her home in part because her community was very religious. There were many mission to Australia so a lot of Aboriginals are Christians. She really believed in God and did a lot of volunteer work in order to serve God. But then her pastor, a man that everyone in her community respected told her that as an Aboriginal she was made wrong by God, she wasn't a true child of God. She came to the city and found her faith again. It is shocking how someone who calls himself a man of God can destroy peoples faith.

[@nicoblackwood9529]

As someone who lives in Mexico and has read the true history archives of the colonisation and the Spanish Inquisition I Can just imagine what this is like. Conquests are the most brutal thing to exist because it’s where all the horrible things that humans can do all take place and no movie could depict 100% of the horror that conquered countries went through.

[@johnthomas2485]

Because the Aztecs were pacifists?

[@rebeccahicks2392]

@@johnthomas2485 How did you get that from his comments? He said conquests are the most brutal things to exist, so presumably that applies to the Aztec's conquests too. Nothing in his comment implied that the Spanish were unique in being brutal--he was talking about conquests in general.

[@teenagemovieguy7816]

well im 14 and I watched the nightingale, I thought it was an incredible film but people aren't talking about how at it's heart this film is about friendship and two people coming to respect each other and showing our beautiful country Australia but also our horrible history

[@cheezyfilmsproductions1842]

Yeah, the dynamic between she and Billy is amazing. The way they help one another deal with their trauma and each do what needs to be done to make sure justice is done….

[@jessxo4363]

i couldn't make it past the first 20 minutes because of the rape scenes. Way too disturbing for me.

[@toxickid8522]

If it has rape I can't watch it 😷

[@navinci9761]

@@toxickid8522 idk why but I can watch TERRIBLE DISTURBING NASTY stuff but when it comes to rape I just can't take it

[@cherrywavesenjoyer]

NAVINCI same

[@Nothingreallytoseehere]

@The Bloodbender well that's you , some people can't handle rape scenes ( like previous commenters have already mentioned.) Could be due to having ptsd , having a strong sense of empathy , maybe they have been raped in the past. And to be honest I'd find it more worrying if someone was unfazed by rape sences , especially if it's very realistic and brutal.

[@Nothingreallytoseehere]

@The Bloodbender you stated that you didn't have a clue as to what all the fuss is about , you didn't mention anything about your comment being about people who normally watch horror movies . Hence the reason why I mentioned the reason why people would find disturbing and unable to handle it. If you can handle it , then all well and good for you. But I'd still personally find it worrying that someone would be unfazed by something brutal as a realistic rape scene. But that's my personal opinion since I've witnessed and known people who react like that and turn out to have little or no empathy whatsoever.

[@buckethatboy8719]

i pray that any innocent soul does not find a bootleg of the movie on youtube. i pray.

[@RodgerE2472]

It's on Hulu and it's boring.

[@buckethatboy8719]

@@RodgerE2472 OH NO THE INNOCENT CHILDREN

[@Yeshua777yahweh]

Your eyes scared the shit out of me when they pop out as you suck a candy 🍬 and sip your tea 😬😅

[@lidu6363]

I have a question, KZbin... Why did you recommend this to me?

[@kisnpisn4919]

Ludmila Marešová same..

[@dankcreme3687]

Same

[@elitebeing21]

Same

[@porte-majestuoso]

Ludmila Marešová I was watching a lot of videos about Mexican cartels......

[@lidu6363]

@@porte-majestuoso Good for you! I was watching Japanese rhytm game play-throughs and Witcher interviews 🤷

[@kleocrow]

Deep....I felt this in my soul and when they finally breathed again so did I. Great films change you and change is the stuff of nightmares and paradise.

[@britsaunders2151]

Okay so they had therapists available for guests to this film, but kidnap and rape victims have to wait a year just to see one if you don't have thousands of dollars to fork over, and then just told "you're fine." Cool.

[@charlotteh2280]

preach. 👏👏

[@mattr.1804]

Who hurt you?

[@ellieval206]

@@mattr.1804 the mental health system probably

[@ArturGlass.C]

Okay the mental health system is fucked but don't shit on a a movie that's holding itself accountable for its issues and is trying to make people be and feel safe. When you see all the dramatization of mental illness and the glamorization of suicide that is prominent in mainstream culture especially in teen tv shows, that's actually pretty cool that they're aware of the impact it can have and that they're doing something. Acknowledging mental illness and mental health struggle is gonna help solve the issue not make it worse.

[@charlesrast4235]

No shit

[@MisterOrgans]

The director of this movie also did a delightful little horror called The Babadook. She is an incredible visionary and this is one of the most important Aussie stories ever told.

[@attirose7932]

In 2019, I took a trip to dc with my eighth grade class. I swear, I was a button away from watching this movie on the plane. Thank god we landed early, my 14 year old mind would have been destroyed.

[@bobgand4158]

4:00 is when it starts

[@sahie]

Against my better judgement, I watched this film. Very confronting and definitely makes me ashamed to be Australian. Our brutal history SHOULD be displayed like this because even now, people like to gloss over it. It’s horrifying, but important to remember.

[@Las645]

Yeah I’m in the middle of watching the movie (I’m 17 by the way) and I literally started bursting into tears on the verge of a mental breakdown after watching the first 30 or 40min of this movie, and I don’t cry at movies that easily.

[@crocodileranger8404]

Please be safe ❤️

[@eleanorhumphries3994]

i could barely handle schindlers list and sophie's choice so i don't think i'll be seeing this

[@chaosmagican]

We watched Schindlers List(e) in 7th grade in school. Can't be that bad (I can't use myself as scale as I'm seemingly dead inside)

[@NICSXLX]

I survived MW2 lobbies so I think I can make it through anything

[@calvinlee8103]

My grandfather survived *WW2* and is the biggest badass I know, but I can't see even him watching something *more* disturbing than something like a Serbian film, or Salo. What is in this movie that makes it so disturbing?

[@Midsommarss]

I survived minecraft lobbies

[@olibernstein6834]

Oh those lobbies were something else 😂

[@galacticwarlock2271]

Exactly.

[@bdl2157]

Breno Ferreira you speak the demons name?!? Dear god, we’re doomed

[@BR-ec2ph]

I'm so jealous of your experience. When I went to Sundance every movie was like "pastel romantic drama with acoustic soundtrack"

[@jazminepoirier1841]

The experience you're talking about reminds me of my experience watching the movie Mother! with Jennifer Lawrence in theaters. Something inside me was so perturbed, I started crying. I loved the experience though: If a movie can make me go through this type of experience, it has really done its job!

[@Maddysublime]

I have never had a movie come even close to being to much for me and the beginning "bad" scene of this movie had me almost turn it off and I am obsessed with the most horrific movies out there.

[@mickcv4554]

Idk how you critics can just watch these disturbing films and then talk about pros and cons like a normal movie. I can’t even imagine watching that

[@cheezyfilmsproductions1842]

Because while it’s shocking and horrifying, there is still a craft at play. And yes it’s more horrifying because these things have actually happened, back then and today as well, but it’s still a film at the end of the day. And so you can still see that this movie isn’t as effective as it is simply due to the subject matter, but mostly because of the craft at hand. It’s the difference between this and A Serbian Film. That is a film that only has the goal of shocking you, with no expertise in how or why it’s shocking you. This film does so for the express purpose of making you feel the evils of colonialism as they were and as they still are today. And because the director is a master at her craft, it’s shown in as honest and visceral a manner as can be shown on screen without being gratuitous or disrespectful.

[@lacilorax]

I was so relieved to see this movie(recently on Netflix). It makes me think, maybe there's some hope for society, that some of us are still capable of speaking the terrible truths people simply don't want to deal with or even touch. Suffering is part of life, there's just no reason to pretend it's not. I also quit watching it once after the opening, but I came back because I really wanted to after Clare's song touched my heart. I'm glad people tell stories like this. It isn't for everyone, but without truth we have nothing. It's not a perfect movie but that's not the point. The point is facing the ugly truth and accepting it, and working to change that...we don't have to be that way, we can move forward as a society from that...that's the point, to me. Evil people aren't just going to go away. We have to stop people from becoming like that BEFORE that point.

[@skullkid1324]

As a 20 year old Australian who grew up hearing about the atrocities that the English committed I really want to watch this especially to see if it has any historical accuracy and id kinda like to see if the eureka rebilion and stockade are mentioned

[@roycepentaghast]

Well as someone who's moved to and lives where this film took place, it's definitely more than a little unsettling.

[@silentmomentum3598]

Sheesh. Sounds rough. If they release where near one of the theatres I go to I feel it'll probably be slightly edited and won't be as rough as you mentioned. I'll give it a shot anyways.

[@lolcatsravenight]

The only worse moment than this movie was "Irreversible", which was realistic and horrifying.

[@jonathonpurdy2493]

As an Aussie, i now want to see this.

[@sinistersilence489]

My mum put this on and didn't tell me what it was. Such an incredibly powerful film. I'm British myself and never before have I truly felt guilty for the actions of my ancestors, always saying that isn't me so I shouldn't feel guilty. But I can't stand the thought of people doing this who might be related to me, the fact that my blood may be the same as those who did this sort of thing.

[@lori9885]

My mom was watching this and stopped for second to watch, saw the "part", covered my mouth. Reminiscent of the baby scene in Mother! Its just one of those things.

[@jackieradley1025]

Oh god. That scene will never leave my brain. It was a quick "Holy fucking shit" with my mouth open/covered all at the same time.

[@يوبيسوفت-ش7ب]

Yö i love your videos. This is crazy. You're so underrated it hurttstsssnsbsb

[@deathpresent101]

The female repzion, I have found you.

[@galacticwarlock2271]

I just came here for the salt.

[@照TERU]

I was just gonna comment that🤣

[@starrynight669]

She does look like female Repzion!

[@Heyheyhey0475]

Cute

[@nameinvain6]

Dammit now I can't unsee it. You just ruined my crush.

[@zolphirasarchive]

Between the video and the comments, I had to see the movie. I’ve watched a lot that I can’t unsee (A Serbian Film, for instance), so “brutal” isn’t necessarily a deal breaker for me. This movie is an emotional gut punch. I actually stayed pretty solid til a little over an hour in. (By then, if you’re not sucked in emotionally, you won’t be). I lost it when she cries over the wallaby. I won’t give context for the scene, since I don’t want to risk spoilers. Just know it’s not about the wallaby. It’s not a violent scene, or a gross one, or anything like that. Just feelings. It’s watching someone’s strength begin to fracture under how much weight they’re carrying that really wears you down over time in this movie.

[@jpsuper]

I love you. I don’t know if it’s the reviews or what you do as an intro, but it is just entertaining and informational... Thank you!

[@Slypooch]

If you need a councillor after a film... I mean I don’t need to say more

[@alejandraponce6214]

Derek M counselor* hunny... counselor. Smh.

[@isaacs8783]

@@alejandraponce6214 some people aren't good at spelling, dude

[@ToXXXicblurr]

Isaac Shoffren but we do have autocorrect...also there’s red error lines that underline the word (at least on phones). It’s been a while since I’ve watched KZbin on a computer. So no excuse

[@isaacs8783]

@@ToXXXicblurr councillor is a different version of it tho

[@Deeegenerate]

@@ToXXXicblurr you guys are talking about a spelling error as if they murdered someone or smth. Chill a little

[@МаркоПетков-к8к]

I checked her video on Twilight and I've seen this one and was hooked up to the content. Although, I may correct you on " A Serbian film". The grosseness of the movie is the weapon of the director telling us: " We are not a holy people. We are just as fucked up as everybody else. We are fucked by more powerfull people just as everybody else is." Why? Because many in Seria are nationalists - the purpose was just to break "holy Serbian people" trope. And when you are into things like researching politics for historical work, you may see the trope in other nations as well and with it nationalism is getting broken - and the scene when Sergej Trifunović says*I'll say it in English*: " A real happy Serbian family." is breaking that trope(conservatives are like 80% of Serbians). Except this, was a fantastic video. Cheers!

[@chelleybelley]

"that Hereditary moment"

[@Seeker_Blade]

I wouldn’t mind seeing a video of your favorite movies of this year

[@charliebun4454]

this movie left me violently sobbing. i have not been so effected by a film in a long time but this horrifically beatuful friendship they created and then music and just the fact that i watched the reality of mu countryies gfaphic history on a screen...jesus i will never ever forget this. The songs really got me to

[@killermermaids18]

“Other than the mormons, utah is a beautiful place” Me an active mormon for 24 years: i agree

[@Whofan06]

"The Hereditary moment" is one the only time I've considered leaving a theater, fantastic movie, but I have some serious issues with ants and that scene made me sick to my stomach between the image and the mother's screaming. So likening to that, I definitely have to see this for myself.

[@cheezyfilmsproductions1842]

Honestly, as effective as Hereditary was, I think this eclipses that.

[@venichi7496]

I watched it and I must say that it is the most disturbing film I've ever seen. There was one scene that made me so disturbed, scared and angry that my heart was beating so fast. It broke my heart when the protagonist just stopped screaming all of a sudden. I actually had to stop my friends from watching it because I know that they don't have the capacity to watch that film.

[@bessdavies6440]

I am an Italian living in England. A lot of my English friends saw this movie and were "in shock", "appalled" and "disgusted". They could NOT believe that the British (and specifically the English) army did stuff like this all the feckin' time. I found their naivitè (spelling?) and cluelessness about the horrors of the British Empire quite incredible to be frank. It goes to show how cleaned up/white washed British history books are, and I noticed this a lot also when speaking to British students, talking about how the British Empire/colonialism is taught in school. News flash: the Brits (in British schools) still portray their colonial past as "we went there and brought CULTURE and CIVILIZATION". A lot of my non-English friends were a lot less surprised by this movie, as in they knew this was standard behaviour for the English troops and knew this movie was pretty historically accurate from that point of view. The movie is indeed brutal and it will make you cry, and it is very beautiful. But unfortunately I am not surprised in the least by what I saw. Like many other people said in the comments: this movie is a very important history lesson.

[@radiationshepherd]

God that's horrible, still today genocides are essentially not acknowledged and white washed

[@bryh555]

I thought I knew what to expect after seeing all the Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave movies and remakes and all that, I was not expecting the scene of what happened to the main character in this movie. It is so dark and is one of the worst and most traumatic things I think a person could live through and seeing her go through every second of it was so rough. I’ll never forget it honestly

[@byrongardner9299]

This was a beautiful yet miserable film. Just every step of the way was you could feel the characters pain. Although this did have some humor sprinkled to relieve the tension a bit this is generally a very disturbing film and I cannot wait to hopefully get it on bluray

[@Axess-sv8nq]

I would never own this movie. It's very well made, yes. But, I saw it once. And that was enough for me.

[@ezra55595]

I saw it opening night, and remember the director saying something to the effect of "This is going to be difficult to watch" before the screening. I don't remember there being counselors offered but, from your description of the auditorium you were in, we weren't at the same screening (I saw it at the MARC; there's no balcony in that theater, I assume you were in Eccles). I would have appreciated some counseling! This movie fucked me UP! (It's super good tho.) Edit: I watched The Death of Dick Long in the same theater later in the week; hilarious dark comedy. It was a nice palette cleanser. It’s on amazon video for like 5 bucks. Go watch it.

[@ezra8129]

Can I get a quick synopsis of the death of dick long? I've had it downloaded for months but haven't watched it because I dont know what I'm getting myself into and all the online summaries are confusing.

[@Kolateak_]

I just went and watched this and man, that dinner table scene is what really got to me

[@TBS_2001]

Shoutout to all my fellow The ATZ Show / Let Me Explain fans.

[@SpencerDragonMonster]

Just watched it last night. You're absolutely right in how it's not for everyone. Like you said, the brutality-for-its-own-sake isn't the point, and there's much more to it. Indeed, the overall tapestry is so beautiful on certain levels that I kinda got bummed out afterwards thinking, "Wow, in some ways, this is TOTALLY the kinda movie I'd love to watch with this or that friend..."...except I'm quite certain that some of said movie-watching pals wouldn't be able to handle those early moments. I don't know that I'd call it "unrelenting," as in all the way through. On the one hand, three separate instances in the first half hour of...y'know, *that* kind of scene...is a bit much even for me to stomach, to where part of me was like, "Is that what everyone means? Is the whole movie gonna be two hours of that happening on the regular?" Honestly, though, the rest of the violence depicted was pretty in keeping with what I'd expect from this kind of "Gritty Western"-ish film.

[@dusteverywhere2665]

I remember seeing the person in front/diagonal to me on the plane watch this movie. I remember seeing an extremely brutal scene that freaked me out so much and I’m really not surprised people were walking out of the theatre watching that

[@dudnutent]

This movie should be used as a torture device. I haven't seen it. And I don't want to. I heard aome pretty nasty things about it. Your a brave soul.

[@porte-majestuoso]

Real world is a lot worse

[@goodnight2931]

What nasty things did you hear about it?

[@dudnutent]

@@goodnight2931 I heard a baby dies. And that there's a lot of torture

[@CreeketsCreek]

I looked at the plot on wikipedia and it actually has a happy-ish ending...? But yeah it has rape and violence and stuff.

[@reader2012]

It’s free on Hulu. I will say, the violence is done tastefully. If you can handle the topics and issues, you should be okay. It isn’t gratuitous in any way.

[@Turbuggy]

“Other than the Mormons” 😂

[@Ninjajessie4]

No idea why this is in recommended, but I want see this movie now 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@jadeloren2761]

You saying people have ran out because of being uncomfortable reminded me of when my grandma left the hunger games and drove and hour and a half home because of how upset she was with the premise

[@SquirrelNutkins]

As someone who also found the film resonated with me I can honestly say as brutal as it was, THAT scene was one of the most effective, accurate and honest depictions I’ve seen on film ever. It was the parts from her pov. I found myself relating to it and despite crying I was overwhelmed with how empowered I felt. It was a moment of “That’s how it is”.

[@markkuo5481]

The nightingale is one of the best movie I've ever seen. 😮

[@hannandersha]

Nope, I can’t do disturbing

[@BreakerInc]

Huh.. Wasn't interested in this movie before I saw this review. Now I NEED to see it, because it sounds like it tells one hell of a story.

[@ckline5486]

Happy birthday Amanda. : ) I see you are up to 31K subs. Congratulations. With time, I think it will get much higher.

[@katr2682]

I actually saw this movie way before I discovered Amanda’s channel. My aunt showed it to me and my mum I think last year or the year before so I was about 12 or 13. I’ve always been pretty mature in terms of the media I consume, my parents never tried to hide media - be it TV, books or movies - that had more adult themes. My mum was ok with me seeing it and while I think ‘enjoyed’ is the wrong word I think it’s a good, well made movie. I would not recommend it to other people my age and certainly not younger however I would recommend it to adults who are interested it theses themes, providing they don’t have trauma around the topics. I just thought I’d leave a comment after Amanda said that no one under 17 has the emotional capacity, I’m not trying to show off I’m just giving my opinion as a minor who saw the movie. Stay safe everyone 💕

[@MultiJeangenie]

Sundance, where Marina Abramovic was sometime ago throwing an "Artistic" silent party, which was attended by Robert Redford, for the movie "Hail Satan".

[@LordInfamous69x]

Amistad is the most brutal graphic movie I've ever seen

[@drdrdrk]

I just want to leave a comment here, cause this is the first video I’ve watched with you. I love your speech. It’s so well put together, but at the same time natural. You don’t see that a lot on KZbin (editing is everything). Subscribed!

[@JosefinaQB]

this movie did in fact traumatize me, i saw it at home and i certainly wish i had a therapist available

[@foxxyfox6077]

Love the digimon plushies in the background. Brought back some feels lol. Also, good video.

[@loriannalamuse9089]

Review starts at 5:20