Monday, March 13, 2006

Confederate States of America - Reaction

A creative, fake documentary on America, covering the last one hundred and fifty years, all based on the assumption that the south won the civil war. Felt authentic, with old shaky news clips and radio broadcasts. Makes one think about implicit racism, especially with the mock commercials (for a show like cops, niggerhair cigarettes, etc.). (Many of these mock commercials are for products that turn out to be real.) Yet doesn't feel deep enough to me. For instance, they have parallels with the kennedy assassination, America surprise attacking the Japanese, an alliance with Hitler, and more, but all these are covered so briefly they doesn't shed new light on either the real history or the movie's.

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