C.S.A: The Confederate States of America (2006)
This mockumentary about the Civil War and its aftermath comes from the "what if" angle of the south being victorious.
The look of the film is often more High School AV than PBS and the actors are embarrassingly stiff. But I wouldn't have minded either of those problems if the movie had anything worthwhile to say -- even something funny would've helped. Instead we get hit over the head with "still slavery after all these years" repeatedly.
The only mildly interesting bits were the advertisement breaks. As revealed at the end, though, many of those sketches (Coon Chicken Inn, Darkie Toothpaste) are for products that actually existed in the not-so-distant past, so the filmmakers can't even take credit for those.
D+
The look of the film is often more High School AV than PBS and the actors are embarrassingly stiff. But I wouldn't have minded either of those problems if the movie had anything worthwhile to say -- even something funny would've helped. Instead we get hit over the head with "still slavery after all these years" repeatedly.
The only mildly interesting bits were the advertisement breaks. As revealed at the end, though, many of those sketches (Coon Chicken Inn, Darkie Toothpaste) are for products that actually existed in the not-so-distant past, so the filmmakers can't even take credit for those.
D+
posted by MeMe | 9:20 PM
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