xc this movie's director and producer insisted on slaughtering animals, the movie was produced in 2005, and the director and producer still want to be vicious like they were in the society 50 years ago. Will not watch any movie produced by these cold-hearted and money hungry director Lars Von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Even more ridiculous, Peter Aalbæk Jensen felt like it was not a big deal, and showed how much he didn't care about audiences upset over the scene by a very lame response, which tells that he had no regret and won't care about animal cruelty, I guess only money can fulfill his soul. From then on I keep boycotting the movies produced by these scumbags, and I believe these two douche bags will pay back the price if not their current lives they will pay back in their next lives for slaughtering animals to gain fame.

cagatlin48 I just finished viewing this movie (Manderlay) and am still trying to catch my breath. As an African American woman who is 60+, I have history on the race relations in America. Raised in Washington DC during the 60s, I was at the March on Washington. In school, I questioned the validity of Black folks and their contribution to this country. I was amazed when finally reading about the contributions of Africans not only to this country but the world. As an actor in theater and film, I found this movie flawless and knew after 10 minutes that someone outside of the USA wrote the script. I loved this film, found it by accident, and will research to determine if it was ever shown in this town. Beautiful piece of work but I agree that for most Americans, it will not set with them easily. I would make it required viewing for high school and college students. Well done

nanajbg I am writing this review only for one reason: to explain the dumb people who view this film as racist, that it is nothing they think.I will make it short- this is what the movie was trying to say (and it is not the directors fault you did not get it): White people caused slavery. After a while (a long, long while) it started to be perceived as something bad and was abolished. Of course people who were living in slavery (meaning- outside the society) didn't know how to find their way and survive outside the concept of slavery, of course they couldn't be as successful as a white person- they didn't have the same chances. So, the white people try to "help" for a short while, and of course the problems which took generations to build up cant be solved in a short time. Then the whites get angry, they are sick of helping, they feel burdened by the blacks and their inability to make it in the society. And they punish the blacks because the blacks couldn't make it, but they are forgetting: the blacks didn't cause the problem, the whites did.Its not only about black and white, it is about human nature and racism is just one example.So, please, this movie is no way racist, it is the complete opposite.

John Raymond Peterson I had some difficulty wrapping my head around a production that was in part stage work (a play instead of a movie), and in part documentary. The story which is meant to educate people about a terrible period in American History, when the treatment of slaves and pseudo slaves was still practiced for a long time. The movie also makes a valiant attempt at the morality issues of the times. The ensemble cast was superb. I however could not see the reasoning in making such a project (low inde budget), since the target audiences, or even audiences in general, were not going to be satisfied by this and tune out very early. I rather think it was indulgent to go ahead anyway; the commercial flop it turned out to be only tells me the producers should have tripled the budget and more the make this a fully fledged feature movie. There at least would have been a real audience for it; that audience would have received the message the producers and cast wanted to make. But hey, it's just my humble opinions.