After re-watching Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino, I revisited the topic of explicitness in films. The thought came to me after I viewed the crushed and bloody ankles of the slaves due to the constricting shackles. The thought was reinforced after I later watched a man get eaten alive by dogs. There are many other scenes of this nature, too. I appreciated that Tarantino included this. If a film is set during a truly horrendous and shameful time period, it should be depicted as such. How else could one begin to fathom how the people who experienced these injustices felt?

Lastly, I believe this idea extends to rape scenes as well.