Do Not Watch This Movie!!!!! I'm Not Kidding!!!!!

Rating: 1/10 (3 December 2013)

This was the most terrible movie I have ever scene in my life, and I am not a young woman. It had more than a few disturbing scenes, especially revolving around Leonardo DiCaprio's character. It was so grotesque that I had to leave the room.
My boyfriend tried to excuse it by saying that was what really happened. How common those specific things happened is debatable because slaves were good for business, so wantonly killing them off would have cut into an owner's business. Based on my research as an African American History minor (English major), slave owners would reprimand male slaves only to discourage rebellion and escaping, not for their own personal entertainment like in this movie. Women were raped of course, but I doubt that the things in this movie were commonplace during slavery.
Even if it was commonplace, that is not a reason to either make a movie about it or be entertained by it. It is a fact that some children are violently sexually abused and raped, but I don't want to see that depicted in a movie either. It is also a fact that some people to the same to animals, but, again, I don't want to see a movie about that either.
In conclusion, I feel that the people behind the scenes, the actors, and even the people who like being entertained by this movie are all mentally diseased. Honestly, I am even looking at my boyfriend sideways, wondering what is wrong with him to like garbage like this. As an African-American woman, I was deeply offended by this movie and I hope this is the last grotesque movie about slavery ever to be made.
So in case you didn't get it yet, Do not watch this movie!!!!! I'm not kidding!!!!!