Aunt Sarah: N__gger is just another word for guilty.
Compelling but deeply flawed, this very interesting tid-bit of history will most likely pull at your heart-strings like a rabid baboon trippin' on LSD. The story is set in a small town named Rosewood in 1920s Florida. It's mostly a black town that borders Hicktown, USA. When a white woman makes up a story about how she was raped by a black man, the majority of the white community gets all crazy, violent and KKK and begin to massacre every black person they lay their eyes on. Ving Rhames, best known for playing Marsellus 'Ass-Raped' Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's innovative masterpiece 'Pulp Fiction', brilliantly portrays Mann. Mann's a bad-ass motherf__cker with a big-ass shotgun and a heart of gold. He helps the black community fend off the racist would-be trailer trash that wants to kill them. The best and most intricate performance of the film comes from Jon Voight who plays a white shop-owner/black sympathizer who finds himself caught in the middle of everything. Don Cheadle also has a small role in which he shines. 'Rosewood' is compelling, graphic and true-to-life, but the film suffers from tediously cliché plot turns and some cheesy if not bland dialogue. All in all, it's a pretty good film that if not anything else will teach you about a little-known but extremely devastating racist massacre that took place on American soil some 80 years ago. Grade: B
Compelling but deeply flawed, this very interesting tid-bit of history will most likely pull at your heart-strings like a rabid baboon trippin' on LSD. The story is set in a small town named Rosewood in 1920s Florida. It's mostly a black town that borders Hicktown, USA. When a white woman makes up a story about how she was raped by a black man, the majority of the white community gets all crazy, violent and KKK and begin to massacre every black person they lay their eyes on. Ving Rhames, best known for playing Marsellus 'Ass-Raped' Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's innovative masterpiece 'Pulp Fiction', brilliantly portrays Mann. Mann's a bad-ass motherf__cker with a big-ass shotgun and a heart of gold. He helps the black community fend off the racist would-be trailer trash that wants to kill them. The best and most intricate performance of the film comes from Jon Voight who plays a white shop-owner/black sympathizer who finds himself caught in the middle of everything. Don Cheadle also has a small role in which he shines. 'Rosewood' is compelling, graphic and true-to-life, but the film suffers from tediously cliché plot turns and some cheesy if not bland dialogue. All in all, it's a pretty good film that if not anything else will teach you about a little-known but extremely devastating racist massacre that took place on American soil some 80 years ago. Grade: B