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Question for male viewers


If the abuse of the fours boys is difficult for me, a female viewer, I just wondered how much harder it must be for viewer of the same sex as the characters? There must be a different view because of this idea of emasculation that comes with it.

And I've always envied male friendships. Anyone ever had any friends as close as they were in the film?

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I just can't get the image of Jussie Smolett having a fag fest in prison. It turns my stomach. I wonder if ole Jussie came up w his bullshit, just to get to a chance to play a woman's roll.

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The most difficult part for me was actually the death of the innocent guy who got hit by the hotdog stand. The entire event was a combination of evil shit to do to an innocent person. First stealing the greek dudes only business, seeing him as less than a dog, and then the eventually harm of a man who did nothing but come home from work. That was the hardest thing for me to stomach in the film.

The abuse scene I felt was basically those kids having the trauma they caused others being revealed in their face. I'm not saying that it was justified, but I've literally known people who have been killed so.

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