This is a very fair review of the obvious short-comings of this film. The real story is a chilling enough thing, but the hack-job manner in which this movie was made could possibly make some viewers wonder if the entire event was completely fabricated to promote the film-maker's own prejudices. The villains are all so completely evil. The good guys are all so pure. That's too bad, because you can't take the film seriously when the "history" is so obviously lop-sided.
This is a subject that could have made a good film in the hands of someone without an agenda. It's a terrible event that had real people on both sides, all of whom had a legitimate story to tell. Cain's silly caricatures were too one dimensional to be real. So what can someone who is unfamiliar with this history end up believing from this film, when so much seems suspect...? It would be better to search out histories from both sides and start again.
There's not a reviewer out there who takes this film seriously -- for good reason.
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Ms. Hudson, if you are so very eager to see a movie about a massacre, then why not watch the... [MORE]
Jason Morely
Aug 27, 2007 00:51
Haven't seen this movie, and probably won't, either. There is a very interesting book out there, however, that covers this... [MORE]
Morgan
Aug 25, 2007 01:56
As an Arkansan with familial and sought after knowledge of the topic I am at once suspicious of Mr. Bennett's... [MORE]
Kathryn Hudson
Aug 25, 2007 01:05
I very sincerely apologize to you, Morgan, and anyone else as personally invested in the history of the massacre depicted... [MORE]
Bruce Bennett
Aug 25, 2007 19:04
This is a very fair review of the obvious short-comings of this film. The real story is a chilling enough thing,...