I had heard it was a violent movie, perhaps with everyone discussing the voilence, it made it into something it wasn't.
I took my teenage sons to see it on Christmas afternoon (our annual tradition is to go see a movie). We had planned to see
Sherlock Holmes, but I got the times wrong and we wound up instead at TGWTDT, which one of my sons preferred to see anyway. Around the point of the second rape, my other son turned to me and said
"Nice Christmas movie, Mom." I apologized. It's not a nice Christmas movie. It is, however, a pretty good movie, and while I had steeled myself for the violence, it's actually not as bad as what I had feared.