![]() But I think that they manage to achieve that with the post-emancipation proclamation stuff, which leads to white unrest in the south that, eventually, leads to the rise of KKK. Anyway, I get the point they're trying to highlight, showcasing how things aren't that much different in the 1940s, in Mississippi, than they were in the 1860s and 70s. Racism is as rampant as ever, thanks to the current dumbfuck troglodyte the US calls its president. Regardless, the point is that no matter how much Newton fought and no matter how much he managed to change things, they have still stayed the same for generations. They pass laws prettying that are, basically, slavery with a prettier name. They disguised slavery as 'apprenticeship', because that's how low these fucks can get. At first you're like 'what's the point of all this?' and, really, by the end of the movie, you're also like 'what's the point of all of this?' I mean I get that what they were going for is that, in spite of what Newton Knight did in the 1860s-70s, in order to help his fellow man secure freedom, in order to protect his friends, former slaves, from being forced back into the same life, except under a new name and legally sanctioned. There's also a legal proceeding where Newton's grandson, who's 1/8th black, being threatened jail time as his marriage, given that he is considered a colored person (despite being whiter than Donny Osmond) is illegal under Mississippi law. Though the union plays a small part in some of the narrative proceedings, like in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation. The union really aren't featured as characters, they're an ancillary presence, only mentioned in conversations and never actually seen outside of the first scene in the movie. With that said, and I know this is gonna upset some of you 'the south will rise again' assholes out there, the fact of the matter is that Newton and his group of people, fight mostly against confederate forces and the confederate soldiers and this lieutenant are treated as the big bad of the movie. Having said all of that, however, this is definitely an interesting movie that tells a worthy story about Newton Knight, a rebellious confederate deserter, along with fellow hardworking people and escaped slaves in order to, basically, be free of the shackles from both the confederates and the union. I suppose that's neither here nor there, my political leanings are irrelevant when it comes to this movie. 'Oh, they were really fighting for states' rights', 'you know black people fought for the confederacy', as if somehow the latter point makes the fact that these fucks wanted to keep their slaves any less morally reprehensible. Talk about a cancer to the country as a whole and the revisionist history some in the south still engage in to this day in order to support their confederacy. Well, like I said, I'd like to repurpose that to fit this movie in saying that the only good confederate soldier is a dead confederate soldier. In that review, I mentioned that the Churchill said, whether he actually DID say it or not, that the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. You know, I'm gonna repurpose a phrase I attributed to Winston Churchill in my review of The Hatred, a terrible movie. ![]()
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