I can't believe we all watched the same movie! I see many good reviews for this movie, but I cannot agree. First my family and I rented Edges of the Lord this past weekend. My husband and our almost 15 year old daughter could not stomach it. I couldn't either. By the time we got to the quarry scene where the main character gets thrown in, we said that's it. We stopped the DVD and ejected it. Later I did watch to see if the ending was better than the beginning and middle - it isn't. It gets worse! I returned it to Blockbuster, explaining they need to tag this movie for future families - warning, extremely disturbing movie! We were of course aware it was rated R, for violence and mild sexual content. We naturally assumed the violence would be WW2/Nazi related. It is but very sad. But in the end I thought an excellent message would unfold. It doesn't! We rented it because the young actor was also in Second Hand Lions (a wonderful movie I might add!). Do not rent this movie unless you want nightmares. I just cannot find anything good to say about this film. Nearly every relationship - child to child, adult to child, adult to adult is odd. The way the children play is disturbing. The priest was okay in the film. I half expected his character to stray from decency, since almost all of the main characters are strange. But he remained good. I honestly never thought a movie could top Pulp Fiction in the "too disturbing to watch" category for me, but Edges of the Lord tops Pulp Fiction. My daughter was so disturbed by Edges of the Lord, we decided to watch something nice, familiar and safe - we popped in a favorite episode of Friends! I was ready to pop in a Disney movie after attempting to watch this movie. Please, take my advice - do not rent it. Unless you want to watch a very bizarre movie, with little good in it. To be honest, I still don't understand what the exact message was here! I don't want to give away the plot but the ending was even confusing. Thank you.
Review of Edges of the Lord
