Title: Hollywood revisionism
Product review: I truly believe an historical movie should attempt to recreate the past to further our understanding of events as they occured. The Patriot merely follows the age old revisionist pattern which Hollywood continually serves up to a gullible audience.I still cannot believe Mel Gibson would allow himself to be used in such a farce. Does he really think the British rounded up women and children and burned them all in a church after locking them in? Does he think loyalist americans were themselves treated fairly and decently in revolutionary/civil war America?Admittedly the movie was visually stunning in its effects but this only left me with a feeling of sadness, sadness that such an important event in history after 200 years, cannot be gotten right.Perhaps it is because I am Canadian and from Loyalist stock, perhaps it is the memory of a war that pitted neighbour against neighbour and father against son that this movie leaves me cold.
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