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Film · Warner Bros. · 2003

Gods and Generals

Name: Gods and Generals scores 43 — Live Historic
Item: Gods and Generals
Rating: 43
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43Leave it.

Sit with Gettysburg instead. This one sentimentalizes the Confederacy. Leave it if you want the war and not the incense.

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The review

Ronald F. Maxwell followed Gettysburg with a prequel that has the same appetite for speeches and a worse conscience. Stonewall Jackson is the center, and Jackson was a real, strange, severe man, worth portraying. The film portrays him as a saint of a cause it cannot bear to name honestly. Slavery is the hole in the middle of the reverence.

I would not put this on a shelf next to Gettysburg as if they were the same kind of object. Gettysburg lets men have their reasons and still shows you the ground. This one burns incense. If someone you love has watched it and come away moved, do not mock the movement. Ask what the cause was, in one sentence, without the music. The sentence is the test the film cannot pass.

Journal

Keep Gods and Generals in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Republic and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Outpost

54 instead of 43

The Outpost is still a war film, and it scores 54 instead of 43. What you gain is truth: Based on a real outpost and a real attack in 2009.

The eight

5
Industry
Marching and prayer and a camp are shown. The labor of the enslaved is not the labor the film is interested in.
4
Household
Wives receive letters. The plantation household is treated as a tenderness.
6
Piety
Jackson's piety is real and the film is not wrong that he had it. It is wrong about what the piety sanctified.
6
Courage
Men are brave on both sides. Bravery is not the missing fact.
3
Republic
A republic's argument about slavery is replaced by a feeling about homeland.
5
Temperance
Very long, very solemn, and the solemnity is a kind of indulgence.
3
Truth
The Lost Cause is in the grain of the picture. A true battle does not rescue that.
2
Stewardship
What it hands on is affection for the wrong funeral.

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Film · Paramount · 2016

13 Hours

43Leave it.

A night, a compound, a political argument wearing a battle. Adults. Do not let the argument be settled by the gunfire.

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The review

On September 11, 2012, the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and four Americans were killed, including the ambassador. The contractors at a nearby CIA annex fought through the night. That much a house should know. Michael Bay's film knows how to film a roof. It does not know how to handle a disputed record, and it does not try. Everyone who hesitates is a villain. Everyone who shoots is a truth-teller.

Adults, and even then I would rather they read two accounts than watch one bay of muzzle flash. If you do watch it, separate the bravery of the men on the annex from the brief the film is writing. Bravery is not a party. A dead ambassador is not a talking point. The film wants both of those sentences to be false. They are not.

Journal

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