OK freedomland in the movie was like 10 acres of woods and old building,they were at this place 5 minutes in the movie....and the body wasn't even buried there, come to find out.. maybe I was just to bored with this movie that I didn't get the whole story. Oh well no big lose, just 2 hours of my life.
shareIt's where she reveals the truth, that Cody is dead... she's setting herself free from the lies...
shareShe doesn't set herself free to the lies! She lies even after she shows them the body. Then after she is interrogated and Lorenzo answers the phone, she immediately asks, "Is it Cody? Is he alright?"
She is friggin't mentally unstable! She probably lied even more times about the subject that we didn't see.
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they called it that cuz the producers an directors didnt give a two *beep* said "o ya thats sounds allright, ya lets call it that an get this *beep* into theaters quick"
Freedomland in the movie represents (IMO) the overlooked, ignored atrocities that are done to children in our country. We will look for one child will all our resources, but ignore the plight of the many hundred that are abused, missing, etc.
I am a married white 41 year old male with 2 teenage sons. I do agree that the media is very choosy about how missing cases are handled by race. It is wrong and I do wish trhings were different.
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I think they really called it Freedomland to allude to the racial aspect of the film. I think it's really supposed to apply sarcastically to America.
shareI agree with you, as I watched the movie, after 10 minutes, I thought ok, freedom land is a good title for a movie about racial problems in the usa, till we hear that freedom land is a place.
Great movie !
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If this is true, then the filmmakers would have been better served not having an actual location in the movie called "Freedomland". This film is so terrible that I refuse to give them credit for thinking up three or four different meanings, and instead choose to believe that, as others have said, they liked the sound of the name and found a way to fit it in. The truth is somewhere in between, I'm sure, but hating them for this crap helps be sleep better at night.
shareI'm not arguing this is a great film, but I think it's better, for criticism's sake, to focus on what films actually do rather than on the filmmakers reasons for doing things, unless those reasons are contained to the film, itself. It's a poor practice, for sure, but plenty of artists do things "just because," but that doesn't mean they can't have value. And since we don't know and can't know, we should give them the benefit of the doubt that they put thought behind every aspect of the film. Just because something may not work does not mean it was not thought out.
shareOK...So what this movie "did" was make me lose faith in everyone involved in the writing, as well as question the mental health of all mothers whose children go missing.
shareThe place freedom land
was a place were they kept children,
that were either abandoned or had something wrong with them
It was a child clinic,
and the most important part of the movie took place there
Thats when the mother (i forgot her name) confesses to knowing were her son is.
They took her there to sort of freak her out so they could get that
info out of her.
Thats why its called freedomland.
could be cuz that's the title of the book the movie is based off of.
shareI just felt really misled by the trailers that made the actual place Freedomland look much more important to the story. It even said "the truth is hiding in Freedomland", which has got to be the biggest b.s. tagline ever.
shareClearly none of you have read the book. Freedomland in the book and Freedomland in the movie are two different places. In the book, Freedomland is an old carnival type amusement park that is run down and abandoned, where Brenda used to take her son to walk around with. That is also where Brenda (in the book) ends up burying her son. The insane asylum was a different place altogether in the book. That is where Brenda (like in the movie) said to search, and where the Friends of Kent brought her and basically walked her into exhaustion so she would confess about where she really burried her son. In the movie they basically combined the two places in a way, just calling the insane aslyum Freedomland and Brenda just burried her son in some random piece of the forest somewhere else. Aftere watching the movie, i was somewhat disappointed, because there is so much left out from the book that makes the story so much better.
shareFor those too young to remember, there was a Freedomland amusement park in New York, run by the city, that closed up after just a couple of years and was replaced by Co-Op City. See scenes from the old Freedomland online, including in 3-D without having to use glasses.
sharexredgarnetx, my parents took us there in the 60s. I didn't know it was run by the city, though. Now we don't even have Rockaway Playland.
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Here is a link describing the amusement park.
http://freedomlandusa.x10host.com/
It was in the northeast Bronx, but it was run by a private company, not the city. (Rye Playland, not far away in Westchester County, is a publicly-owned facility.)
Richard Price, the novel's author, grew up in the Bronx during that period so I assume he must have been there a few times.
<Freedomland is an old carnival type amusement park that is run down and abandoned>
I was wondering about that. When I was a little kid there was a theme park in New York named Freedomland.
I even remember part of the jingle: Mommy and Daddy take my hand/Take me out to Freedomland.
The roller coaster was called Danny the Dragon.
God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety
BS? Not really, since the truth was confirmed in Freedomland. When the Edie Falco character took her there it brought up the feelings that Julianne Moore's character had for her child...
I think sometime people need to think outside the box a touch.
If the ending can be SPOILED, it may be if you keep reading!!!!!!
I didn't read the book. I watched the MOVIE. That's why I'm on the MOVIE'S message board. I do like to think outside the box... When there's a box to think outside of! They could have sat her down anywhere and got that confession out of her. Julianne Moore's character didn't act like she was affected at all by being there. She didn't give two *beep* Not to mention that the only character that seemed to know of any significance of Freedomland was Sam Jackson's. And he wasn't telling anyone. Freedomland didn't seem to have any connection to anyone at all in any way. The metaphore of Freedomland is a bit of a stretch.
Coming from Union SC... the land of Susan Smith... a place where this actually happened.. I really thought the movie was true to form.. and I loved Samuel L Jackson in it. I did think that the chick was mentally ill.. and didn't know where it was going ( a good thing with a movie).. I actually was thinking the brother (her's..not the Black guy) had helped her.. I REALLY liked the movie!
shareI just watched the movie on Starz on Demand.
The heart of the whole movie, IMO, is Council's statement:
"God's grace is retroactive. God gives us second chances. I didn't do what I could have for my son Jason—and now, I see every kid out there as Jason."
It's a movie about faith, hope, and the possibility of redemption in the midst of a flawed humanity and a flawed society. Freedom from the bondage of our human condition is only through grace.
[Actually, in the midst of all this discussion of the film,
I'm surprised that I haven't found any other comments about the religious themes of the film. Isn't that the whole point?]
And thank you for spoiling the outcome of the film in the very first post, without a spoiler warning even!
People, please, if you're going to reveal pivotal moments in any film on these boards, at least give a warning so those of us who haven't seen it yet can decide whether or not we want to know what happens.
If you don't want to know the details about a movie, don't read the message boards about the movie.
That simple.
It's not the rest of the planet's responsibility to protect you from your stupidity.
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