Good acting -ghastly content. No feel good factor!

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2011)

Whilst I thought this film was well cast, produced, directed and acted,I found the content very difficult to deal with and unnecessarily violent at times. It was very 'dark' and distressing and anyone with a nervous disposition would be well advised not to go and see it. There is no 'feel good factor' at all and when the film finished there was just a stunned silence, broken only by someone behind us saying sarcastically, 'Thanks for taking me to such an uplifting film!' That made people laugh and broke the tension. Unusually, we didn't hear any positive comments on the way out. We had wanted to see 'The King's speech' but it was full so we saw this instead as we had seen interesting trailers and heard good reviews. Sadly, I feel there was too much sensationalism and not enough reality. I would never watch it again and rather wish I hadn't seen it at all as the horrible images stay with you afterwards.I watch films to be entertained not disturbed. As I said, I thought the acting was very well done but the content was too harrowing. I wonder how the writer even thinks up these ghastly scenarios. It was rather sick in my opinion.I expect it will do well in the name of 'Art,' Rather like the 'Emperors New Clothes.'