Sophie and the Rising Sun
Movie • 2016 • Drama
ReportIn a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.
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Various flashbacks reveal Sophie in her youth was beat with a stick as a punishment for playing with another child of a different race.
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More bittersweet than sad — Ann lives contently and friends with Salome, but no longer has Grover Ohta and Sophie to her company. Salome herself will never see her childhood friend back, but she is alive and happy as well.
Grover and Sophie escape unhurt and together, but, being that the former is a Japanese-American and it's shortly after Pearl Harbor, both are revealed to be living in a Japanese Internment Camp. Grover is able to grow plants (maybe apples, per his dreams) and Sophie is happy with him regardless of the circumstances, but are incarcerated nonetheless.
Grover and Sophie escape unhurt and together, but, being that the former is a Japanese-American and it's shortly after Pearl Harbor, both are revealed to be living in a Japanese Internment Camp. Grover is able to grow plants (maybe apples, per his dreams) and Sophie is happy with him regardless of the circumstances, but are incarcerated nonetheless.
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Sophie and Grover Ohta are depicted having sex twice — once with Sophie and Grover stripping and kissing together (at most shown is both shirtless) before the scene changes (about 1:16:05 to 1:18:05) and another with them groping, kissing, and during (blurred) intercourse, with the scenes shot intimately but obscured of details (about 1:20:00 to 1:21:30)
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Being set in the South shortly before and during US involvement of World War II after Pearl Harbor, both anti-Black and anti-Asian (specifically anti-Japanese) racism is depicted in the film, including usage of slurs several times throughout the film.
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Ruth's son John is heard gasping and struggling to breathe in bed (about 1:14:15 to 1:14:42)
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Ann breaks her ankle after leaving in anger. Her fall is briefly shown with an audible crack, before it cuts to black, and reveals she's bedridden.
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Salome, the only major Black character, is very much alive by the end of the film
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Not depicted, but a character's father is described as often bringing "a stash of liquor for days on end".
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Ann, a larger woman, says a self-deprecating joke when she's bedridden due to a broken ankle, and says she'll become "a bigger lump of lard" after her friend promises her plently of potato salad. She also jokes to her friends as planning to "fatten me up for the slaughter", akin to a pig for a feast. Both are light-hearted in nature.
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Grover Ohta is shirtless twice, and Sophie is shirtless once.
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While Sophie and Mrs. Morrison are at the theater, a news reel reports that Japanese soldiers are raping women.
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The sheriff restraints Sophie by hand multiple times when he attempts to assault her.
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The sheriff sexually assaults Sophie as an attempt to bait Grover Ohta to come out of hiding in her house. It's brief, as Ohta was never there in the first place and the sheriff let's her go shortly after, regardless it is a jarring scene (about 1:08:20 to 1:9:20)
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Ruth honks her horn several times when she sees a car leaving the cabin of Ann's father (about 1:36:02 to 1:36:09)
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Grover Ohta's introductory scene has him beaten up, bloodied, and unconscious. He later is beaten up again and stabbed. Both scenes have him stripped to reveal a lot in a medical context
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Also, during a news reel at the theater, the reel shows Japanese prisoners on their knees, hands bound, being executed with guns. It is shown on screen.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Being set in the South shortly before and during US involvement of World War II after Pearl Harbor, both anti-Black and anti-Asian (specifically anti-Japanese) racism is depicted in the film, including usage of slurs several times throughout the film.
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