1. Look at the Civil War from another angle. Influenced by "gone with the wind", I was very interested in the American Civil War, and looked at it from the perspective of a southern planter. Ang Lee's "Riding with the Devil", which I saw earlier, also looked at the war from the perspective of the soldiers in the south. In "The Good and the Bad", Yankee officers show the helplessness and cruelty of the Civil War. In the history textbooks and popular science books, the significance of the war is mainly interpreted from the northern capitalists represented by Lincoln. The film complements another perspective - that of poor Highlanders.
In "gone with the wind", the Georgian ranchers looked down on the poor whites from the highlands who had no slaves, and some of the whites from the highlands thought they were bleeding for the rich, and some of them fled home to cultivate the land for their families to support their families . And in this movie, this fact is vividly displayed. Highland whites charged, many women were widows, and many black-haired men sent white-haired men. The Union not only severely punished deserters who disobeyed the great cause, but also looted the winter supplies of the Highland whites. Is this really a war for the entire South? Someone in the movie says she hates Georgia, which means she hates big farmers, like Ada, who just came from Charleston, who only knows how to be pampered, but they have to bleed for them. War is always for the rich, and the poor are just pawns and gambling money.
2. Who said Nicole Kidman was a vase? Whether it's a fair-skinned rich girl or a peasant girl after hard work, they all feel it, especially Ada's tearful image of missing Inman, which is very expressive.
3. Take a mirror to see the mottled light and shadow in the well to spy on the future. It is indeed a very operational and poetic legend.
4. Maybe it's because I don't like watching romantic movies very much recently, so I can only give four stars.
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