I saw an interview with the director where he said that he had to tone down the violence and use the least shocking and violent incidents from the true life stories of the actors. He said that if he had depicted what was the "typical" level of violence in Liberia's wars, it would have been too shocking for westerners causing them to be overwhelmed and dismiss the film as a "splatter flick" as a way of emotionally coping with what they had just seen.
I saw an interview with the director where he said that he had to tone down the violence and use the least shocking and violent incidents from the true life stories of the actors. He said that if he had depicted what was the "typical" level of violence in Liberia's wars, it would have been too shocking for westerners causing them to be overwhelmed and dismiss the film as a "splatter flick" as a way of emotionally coping with what they had just seen.
mmechill 8 months ago