
Ifc - Ifc
Release date: 2006-08-08
DVD
Director:Kevin Willmott
Actors: Charles Frank, Evamarii Johnson, Rupert Pate, Larry Peterson
Adult Humor, Adult Situations, Angry, Biting, Color and B&W, Comedies, Comedy, Comedy Drama, Comedy Video, Deadpan, Disturbing, English, Feature, Feature Film-comedy, Heads of State, Living In Exile, Mockumentary, Movie, Ominous, Political Satire




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 discussion of such issues, but our times are probably not right for this.
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 black 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 black 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 attempt to rewrite history by a dishonest man.
Don't waste your time with this peace of stinking garbage.