Or at least what I meant to write. NYC is not the entire country. NYers may not see it because of the raw emotions of having lived it. There are about 250 million other people in the country. Of those that don't want to see it, I'm sure many of them have less than an "honorable", for lack of a better word, reason for not wanting this movie to be seen.
"raw emotions" is a good way of phrasing it.