There's a lot of boring dialog and attempts to humanize the members of the 24th in this movie. It's good and bad. I couldn't find anything on if these were real names of the people involved and if any of this was true (before the revolt).
A lot of it is boring. There are just stretches of boring dialog and repeated "Boston, you ain't no black man" exchanges which get very tiresome.
But the movie paints the revolt as if these folks were some sort of heroes for killing all these terrible white people. Now they were treated very unfairly, there is no doubt and I have no doubt the injustices against them were all real, unfair and terrible. It's a terrible time in history for minorities.
But killing people as a result does not make them heroes and is not the great ending to a terrible injustice. These guys were not heroes in any way. They, in the end, were as bad as the people who abused them - worse, in that they killed a bunch of people, many of whom had nothing to do with the abuses against the regiment. These are not heroes.
A sad time in history, yes, but not a great movie.
A lot of it is boring. There are just stretches of boring dialog and repeated "Boston, you ain't no black man" exchanges which get very tiresome.
But the movie paints the revolt as if these folks were some sort of heroes for killing all these terrible white people. Now they were treated very unfairly, there is no doubt and I have no doubt the injustices against them were all real, unfair and terrible. It's a terrible time in history for minorities.
But killing people as a result does not make them heroes and is not the great ending to a terrible injustice. These guys were not heroes in any way. They, in the end, were as bad as the people who abused them - worse, in that they killed a bunch of people, many of whom had nothing to do with the abuses against the regiment. These are not heroes.
A sad time in history, yes, but not a great movie.