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Review title: Realistic Civil War violence, but so what?
Product review: This is a tale of skirmishes between gangs of young men who see the reason to kill and pillage as justified because the other side "wants to change our way of life". If this was meant as an anti-war movie, it succeeded as such for me, but I don't believe that was the director's intention.The cinematography is very well done, the acting is certainly favorable, and the character development is adquate, but the movie drags on endlessly. I'm sure this is an excellent composite of the skirmishes in the "border states" at the start of the Civil War, but I'm not sure what the message we can bring away from it is.Realism for the sake of realism doesn't justify the making of this movie. Well drawn "trees", unfocused "forest".
