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A must see historical perspective of the war that ensured the Independence of the 13 US colonies
During our 4th of July, 2007 celebration, we decided to see this movie to put the birth of our nation into perspective. <
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>We just completed a vacation tour of the South Eastern United States, visiting our home State Florida, and then driving through Alabama, staying for a few days with family in Fayetteville, Georgia, then onto to Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, DC, South Carolina and back through Georgia, finally arriving safe at home in Miami Lakes, Florida. <
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>Throughout our trip, we visited war memorials, monuments, and historical places that inspired taking the time to delve into the patriots that forged our way of life. This movie takes place in South Carolina back in the 1776 struggle to free ourselves from British rule. <
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>The hero, Benjamin Martin is the consolidation of many patriots, and it surfaces the tremendous sacrifice endured by our ancestors, who survived through the destruction of their homes and the trauma of losing family members to the cruelty displayed by many a British soldier. <
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>Benjamin Martin, masterfully played by Mel Gibson, is a hero of the French-Indian war, who witnessed such cruelty during the many battles he survived that he has decided to live by peaceful means and not get involved in what he augurs to be a rather brutal fight that shall not take place in a remote location, but that will take its toll in every backyard of the residents of the town where he lives with his six children. His wife has died and he is therefore, solely responsible for the upbringing of the children, thus he explains, he does not have the "luxury to fight" for he has the responsibility to parent his children 100% of the time. <
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>But his eldest son enlists, and as Gabriel goes off to war, events start taking a rather menacing turn which in the end compels this father to become integral part on our fight for Independence. As we watched the movie... Don and Virginia McDonald, Alex, Katya and Nadya Ariano... and myself... we were left with the realization that our nation was formed by men willing and able to sacrifice all for a new way of life... for the gift that it represents to live our lives guided by the precious document represented by our Constitution, and with the awesome responsibility of doing whatever it takes to ensure that the USA remain... free from tyranny! <
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>A must see film!!! <
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Good movie.
It may not be very historicly accuate but makes you fell proud to be a AMERICAN!!!

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MASTERS OF PROPAGANDA...
Patriot brings to the screen a fictitious story from the American Revolution, or else the director and his sponsors' version of what they would like the people to believe as historical fact. <
>A quiet farmer and veteran of the French and Indian Wars is "forced" into partaking in the American Revolution on the side of the Continentals as a result of a sadistic British Colonel... <
>The good things first: <
>1) The cast, the setting, the battle scenes, and the costumes are all very good. <
>2) The film does show (though sparsely) the pivotal role that France played during the War, without whom the Continentals would have been defeated. <
>3) The Tomahawk trophy off a fallen Indian warrior (subtly) insinuating the ghastly relations between colonists and the natives i.e. the traditional hatred between the lower class North American colonists and the Indians (not a surprise considering the content of the Declaration of Independence: "the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions"). <
>On the negative side now: <
>1) It's a biased, one-sided approach to a major historical event which one would think by now would be able to be presented in an objective manner. It's the same old/usual cliches involving one of Hollywood's favorite villains/scapegoats: the British (it must have been really difficult to include Germans, Serbs or Russians in this one...). <
>For starters, misusing the term Patriot in referring to Englishmen who betrayed their government, their country, and their flag, is reminiscent of the Soviet Union and how they christened their ultimate tool (newspaper) of propaganda Pravda, or "Truth." <
>Similarly, the British Colonel asked the Loyalist how he could betray his neighbors and not the other way around. <
>2) From the beginning, the setting is South Carolina and all that is heard throughout the film is either a British or a Northern (Yankee) accent! <
>3) South Carolina was home to most of the 13 colonies' Loyalists, even to the point of outnumbering the Continentals, yet all we saw was but a few. <
>4) At the time when the S.C. Assembly voted in favor of secession not a single Red Coat or a single Loyalist were in the vicinity! Not a single shot was fired... <
>5) There is no clarification that taxes set by the British Government are taxes set by King and Parliament, not King George III alone. <
>6) Throughout the film the Continentals are presented in good light while the Red Coats are demonized. Oh, I forgot; the British have to be the baddies while the Continentals are the heroes... Have mercy on us, please! <
>7) The movie does not really portray the double-crossing merchants, farmers, and politicians that supported whichever side the wind happened to be blowing in, always in search of profit and personal gain. Nor does it show the clash within the Continental side (the undermining, the personality clashes, favoritism, public relations, political connections), between Congress and the Army, as well as the farmers and most importantly the merchants profiteering at the expense of whoever/whichever side etc. <
>8) Martin's slaves were not slaves; they were "free men" working of their own will... <
>9) Does not show what the Continentals did to the Loyalists during and after the Revolution. <
>10) Blacks and Whites fighting together against the British was simply absurd for that era. What's more, the British policy, which was indeed to free the slaves from the colonists, is ridiculed in the movie... <
>In short, the film does a good job, as it should do, in presenting a case study on the use of propaganda on unaware people and the danger it poses. <
>If the American Revolution is what you had in mind, check out the AMAZING films Revolution starring Al Pacino and Donald Sutherland, and Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor starring Aidan Quinn and Kelsey Grammer. <
>In conclusion, the potential for a great movie was there. A shame really... 2 Stars