anyone else see Confederate States of America?

[fleabert]

very compelling. Spike Lee executive produced it, after seeing it at Sundance. Made me very uncomfortable, my stomach was literally upset while watching it. this link contains a review with lots of spoilers, clickers beware.

Saying I liked it isn't correct, really, 'liked' isn't the right word, but I recommend it.

http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=8870

>snip<
Willmott isn't interested in academic niceties. He wants to make you laugh and hurt at the same time, and then he wants you to think. So his film -- ostensibly a British documentary being aired on a local San Francisco station -- opens with an ad for Confederate Family Insurance, complete with a happy white family, soothing banjo music, and a smiling young African-American slave tending the garden. What follows is nothing less than a satiric takedown of our assumptions about racial progress.

[Taverner]

1. Looks excellent

Spike Lee has been behind some very honest looks at Racism, the best being "Bamboozled" - a movie which didn't get the credit it deserved.

[fleabert]

2. I hope more people get to see it, only released in 19 cities.

I did think about stupid white supremists watching it and being wistful, the assholes. It was really hard to watch. My white guilt really went haywire.

[AllegroRondo]

3. I really want to see it

but I'll have to wait for DVD.

[Taverner]

4. Here's the website (with timeline)

http://www.csathemovie.com/

Interesting, it's the Newfoundland Missle Crisis that happens in '62 instead of Cuban.

[blindpig]

6. One thing about that timeline

Custer would not have served in the Confederate Army, he would have been tried as a war criminal. He had hung a number of Col Mosby's(the Gray Ghost)men in Front Royal, Virginia. Perhaps Joe Wheeler.

[SmileyBoy]

5. I have GOT to see this movie.

I hope the Fargo Theatre will play this.