My Rating 3 stars out of 5
Now available on DVD
Rated PG-13
Directed by: Kevin Willmott
Starring: Greg Kirsch, Renee Patrick, Molly Graham and Rupert Pate
Rotten Tomatoes: 79% fresh
Netflix: 3 stars out of 5
IMDb: 6.6 stars out of 10
The premise of CSA: The Confederate States of America is a pungent look at what would have happened if the confederate army had won the Civil War. This is achieved by the film portraying itself as a fake TV documentary from Britain, complete with fake commercials of slavery-related products and services.
I expected the film to be funnier: a humorous look at our society had the South won. It is humorous, but only at times. Really, it’s the commercials that are disgustingly humorous. The fake TV documentary, however, is very serious. Not so much The Daily Show, as a real documentary based on a complete what if. Had I realized going in that it was so serious, I think I would have enjoyed it more. Prepare to see a hypothetical documentary on something that could have happened, salt-and-peppered with crack-up commercials.
Quotes from the movie just don’t work. So I am not putting them in. I will, however, replace that with an interesting tidbit from the Internet Movie Database: “A majority of the racist products features in the film’s fake commercials are real racists products from American History.” (see this trailer, or this one.) (view the official site.)
Now available on DVD
Rated PG-13
Directed by: Kevin Willmott
Starring: Greg Kirsch, Renee Patrick, Molly Graham and Rupert Pate
Rotten Tomatoes: 79% fresh
Netflix: 3 stars out of 5
IMDb: 6.6 stars out of 10
The premise of CSA: The Confederate States of America is a pungent look at what would have happened if the confederate army had won the Civil War. This is achieved by the film portraying itself as a fake TV documentary from Britain, complete with fake commercials of slavery-related products and services.
I expected the film to be funnier: a humorous look at our society had the South won. It is humorous, but only at times. Really, it’s the commercials that are disgustingly humorous. The fake TV documentary, however, is very serious. Not so much The Daily Show, as a real documentary based on a complete what if. Had I realized going in that it was so serious, I think I would have enjoyed it more. Prepare to see a hypothetical documentary on something that could have happened, salt-and-peppered with crack-up commercials.
Quotes from the movie just don’t work. So I am not putting them in. I will, however, replace that with an interesting tidbit from the Internet Movie Database: “A majority of the racist products features in the film’s fake commercials are real racists products from American History.” (see this trailer, or this one.) (view the official site.)
1 comment:
If you want a good look at an AU w/ the South winning, read Turtledove.
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