Gangs of New York Movie Poster

Man, this movie was brutally violent......especially the part where they shown the Draft Riot; I honestly don’t know if I should feel hate or sympathy for those rioters who participated in that event because on one hand, I’m angry at them for causing destruction and murdering innocent, unarmed civilians(which by the way, some of those victims were African Americans). Yet, on the hand, I understand their desperate situation in which they must hunt for jobs to put food on the table and seeing their boys getting forced to fight a war that will most likely slaughter them.