Review of The Keeping Room (2014) by Ernest J — 01 Jun 2016
Well done film about an frightening time when people in the United States suffered total war that robbed them of homes and families. It is also about what happens to good people who are contually exposed to violence, anger, and fear.
I was afraid this might somehow be a defense of the South and slavery, but the movie goes into the brutality of what it meant to be a slave, sexual abuse of black female slaves by their masters, and what it meant to earn freedom.
Ultimately the three women find any illusion of master and slave falling away in the face of the need to survive. The three female lead actors are terrific, and Sam Worthington is great as the heartless Union soldier who is revealed to be more than we think he is.
Sets and feeling for the era are very authentic, and the vulnerability of women left in a land devoid of their own men, and facing an irresistible invasion of male foes, enact an ironic defense at the end of the movie.
This review of The Keeping Room (2014) was written by Ernest J on 01 Jun 2016.
The Keeping Room has generally received mixed reviews.
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