What would the United States look like if the South had won the Civil War, slavery was still legal and liberals had fled to Canada? According to filmmaker Kevin Willmott (an assistant professor at the University of Kansas), it would resemble the vision put forth in this provocative mockumentary, set in a modern-day Confederate States of America. Spike Lee lends his name as a producer to this daring, if discomforting, parody. (Netflix.com)
Grade: C+
This was a funny, and interesting look into what life would have been like had the south won. There was A LOT of racist stuff in this movie, but it was done in a way to show the idiocy of racism, not to promote it, and actually, the things that were the most racist and offensive were actually things that existed back then, so you cant fault them for showing us a piece of history that we'd rather have tucked away or swept under a rug. For that reason it was good, it was a good "what if?" movie, and also a good "look at what life was LIKE back then" movie. I think it was worth the watch, and it was done in a way that really was not off putting, and more thought provoking.
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