Rosewood - Ending

The film is a human story, about human envy, greed and lust, about the totally insane psychology of a mob, but also about the courage and decency of common folks facing an unbelievable onslaught of evil. The courage of the black residents is self evident, and the decency on the part of a few white neighbors is reluctant, until they realize that they can't live with themselves if they don't help the woman and children to escape. The most notable black heroes are Sylvester (Don Cheadle) -- a music teacher and the best-educated man in town -- and Mann (Ving Rhames) -- a stranger on horseback with Samson-like strength who becomes the focus of white hatred and black resistance. The penny-pinching, adulterous town grocer John Wright (John Voight), one of the few white residents, also plays a key role in saving lives, but before he does, he must resolve painful racial issues and make a difficult personal choice. Eventually, though, he sees enough of the mob's evil to know what he must do, and with the help of the reluctant owner-operators of the Gainesville railway, he does it. John Singleton's powerful epic film does not present a "comfortable" view of the circumstances of this grim, little-known page from American history. ~ Michael P. Rogers, All Movie Guide

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[ChicagoTyme]

At 0:59, he's sick huh? You could have fooled me. He wasn't too sick to go on a killing spree and ending innocent people's lives, a fat fuck. Run Emmett!

[sexylips923]

Emitt was a good boy, He knew that shit wasnt right

[abdulrasheed07]

@thisgirlshair I am saying that WhiteWoman was EVIL. That LIE she told got 150 Black Men , Black Women and Black Babies KILLED. Also I dont believe her husband beat her for telling that lie. And I dont believe that white boy left his father.

[thisgirlshair]

@abdulrasheed07 So you're saying that without that "shedevil" race in America spares Rosewood? History doesn't support that idea of America in 1923. After hundreds of years of white power structure controlling the black body, including perpetrating rape, this power structure feared black power because it feared blacks with power would act as monstrously as it had done. Black power was targeted OFTEN using the fear of black men raping white women as an excuse for the destruction.

[abdulrasheed07]

@thisgirlshair I am blown away by your last two comments. That lying,treacherous and Deceitful SHEDEVIL was the Instigator of all those murders.

[drajuly22]

I would have tied fannie lying ass to the back of some horses, dragged her ass miles to the swamps and then, tossed her ass in a pit of crocs and gators and, the rest is history ! !

[THISISWHYTHEYHATEME]

this movie was so underated i dont get how black folks could watch the white version of passion of christ and boo hoo but after watching this real life event about their own people they dont feel shit, and dont care a god damn shame, they can glamourize boyz n the hood, juice and menace II society but a real movie like this dont bring no emotions in these emotionless pieces of shits, and i am black wow.

[thisgirlshair]

@djmarkski2000 You need to re-read my comment; you have missed my point. I never said that the only thing I got from this movie was the beating of the woman. I am explaining that after much time what stands out to me about this movie is the weak ending that misspent the movie's anger and which leaves the audience (reflected in many of the comments here) with an emotional catharsis which really does no good, a catharsis which glorifies in its case another big problem we have in society.

[djmarkski2000]

@thisgirlshair Wow, the only thing that you got from the movie was the beating of the woman? I don't condone mistreating women but you seem to have missed what the movie was about. That's really sad.

[thisgirlshair]

I remember this movie when it came out. I was in my early twenties, and now at 39 all I remember about the film is the basic plot and the woman getting beaten at the end. And I have to say that the woman beating ending destroyed the movie for me. The beating of the woman did nothing to right the wrongs! And as a young woman in the audience I felt that beating. The film took out its anger on femaleness. The Rosewood situation was not because of a woman's lie. Her lie was used as an excuse.

[MsFilmmaker1984]

@decus69 --OMG, are you serious? LOL, You didn't know we used to be slaves? Wow, well yeah we were...400 years ago, it was a sad time, many great black leaders were killed then from being in slavery...

[hunhun23]

Serves that bitch right for whoring around on her husband! She needed to get her ass beat. Good for Emmett for running away from his fat fuck of a nasty father! I have been to Rosewood and basically all that is left of the original town is the merchant's store located on highway 24