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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rated by buyers Unrated
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN num: 0796019795104
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Ifc
Manufacturer: Ifc
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Ifc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 08, 2006
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 13375
Studio: Ifc
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Find out what America would be like if the South won the Civil War. Presented as a mock documentary, through the use of fabricated movie segments and actual stock footage from our own history, comes a humorous and provocative story of a country, which, in
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Like a Picasso, the film is childishly original,daring, crude, and admirable. It presents an alternative history that is not completely logical in form and not completely divorced from reality either. It is Picasso heads with both eyes on one side and the mouth off somewhere wrong and yet that has something worthy to say. It will not engage everyone's attention, just as a Picasso will not and will in fact offend and bore many. This film may be brilliant but it is not satisfactory as a conventional comic presentation, and it is not satisfactory as conventional science fiction alternative futurism. It is not satisfactory as conventional entertainment.
It is a sort of collage of odd visuals and thoughts that hang together on a fascinating theme and one that is well worth considering. It raises questions well worth pondering, and they are NOT simply "what if the South had won the war"? Who/what are we, we the products of history, in fact? And is what WE ARE satisfactory and why?
The film deserves to prompt deep discusion of such issues, but our times are probably not right for this.
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ok, i just watched the preview and frankly it seems like a stupid movie.
I though it would be accurate, it doesnt seem that way!!!
Is it worth spending the money to buy this movie????
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This movie is probobly the worst movie I have ever had the displeasure of watching.
It is historically incorrect and fails to mention that there were literally thousands of free grey men living in the south, that there were many blacks fighting for the Confederacy and that there were Jews not only in the Confederate army ( Colonel Myer whom the Fort in Florida is named after ), but also in the Confederate Government ( Judah Benjamin ). Finally and most interestingly, the Confederate President Jefferson Davis had a grey adopted son who was torn from the hands of his wife by Yankee soldiers when Davis was arrested. The boy and mother screamed and cried as the Northerners carried him away. Lee, neglects to mention that the war started not because of slavery, but rather because of repressive taxes imposed on the Southern states.
This movie is a pathetic endeavor to rewrite history by a dishonest man.
Don't waste your time with this peace of stinking garbage.
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This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. It rightly mocks the south for its continued revisionist views of the Civil War. Face it, you lost, and men such as Stonewall Jackson are not heroes but traitors on the level of Benedict Arnold.
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Replete with revisionist history, this film reinforces the true adage that the victors will write the history books (and the films), and distort the events of history in their favour. The film is flawed from its very onset in that it presents historically unfounded and easily refutable speculations based on fallacious presuppositions: namely, that the South's ambition was to preserve and perpetuate slavery, and that there was a desire to dominate the North. Both are false.
For example, consider with what great reluctance that tyrant Lincoln did issue the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, much in opposition to his true aim expressed clearly only months before:
"My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some of the slaves and leaving others alone I would also do that." - Lincoln to Horace Greeley of the NY Tribune August 22, 1862.
Consider again the words of "Honest Abe":
"I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the grey races." -Abraham Lincoln
Not yet compelled?
"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side." -Ulysses S. Grant, Union General
Juxtapose Lincoln's and Grant's words with these:
"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil." -Robert E. Lee, Confederate General
"I wish to see the shackles struck from every slave." -Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General
And regarding the erroneous notion that the Confederacy desired the domination of the North? Even the British media at the time understood this not to be an objective:
"It does seem the most monstrous of anomalies that a government founded on the `sacred right of insurrection' should pretend to treat as traitors and rebels six or seven million people who withdrew from the Union, and merely asked to be left alone."
Confused yet? Just who were the bad guys in this struggle? After consuming the poison which is this film, try following it with the likes of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by DiLorenzo, and prepare to have your eyes opened.
-Sic Semper Tyrannus
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