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Movie review by Charles Cassady Jr. Parents recommend Popular with kids. Excellent Civil War movie has graphic violence, profanity. R minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 10 reviews. Based on 41 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free.
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A lot or a little? The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Stands out for positive messages and positive role models. Positive Messages. Positive Role Models. What parents need to know Parents need to know that Glory is a movie about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first all-African-American volunteer company to fight in the Civil War.
Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Adult Written by Jakethesnake August 18, How in the heck did this get an R rating? Dedicated in , the relief sculpture commemorates the march through Boston by Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts that is beautifully captured in the movie.
Until the s, it remained one of the only public reminders of the service of roughly , free and formerly enslaved Black men in the United States army during the Civil War. By the beginning of the 20th century, Confederate monuments blanketed prominent public spaces in cities and towns throughout the South and even beyond. They celebrated the Christian virtue and bravery of the Confederate soldier, as well as generals such as Robert E.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and denied that the war had anything to do with the preservation of slavery and white supremacy. Some Confederate monuments went even further and intentionally distorted the history of African Americans by celebrating their supposed loyalty to the Confederate cause.
Altogether, these monuments ignored the steps that African Americans took to undermine the Confederacy by fighting against it and as a result denied that they had any interest in attaining their freedom. This denial helped to reinforce the Jim Crow culture of white supremacy that prevented black Americans from voting and the ability to take part in any public discussion about how to commemorate the past in public spaces. Glory still offers a powerful reminder of the stakes of the Civil War for communities across the country debating whether to remove their Confederate monuments.
Kevin M. Levin is a historian and educator based in Boston. Denzel Washington won an Oscar for his role as one of the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts.
Post a Comment. These little details lead up to larger ones, as when the children of poor black sharecroppers look on in wonder as black soldiers, in uniform, march past their homes. And everything in the film leads up to the final bloody battle scene, a suicidal march up a hill that accomplishes little in concrete military terms but is of incalculable symbolic importance. Watching "Glory," I had one reccuring problem. I didn't understand why it had to be told so often from the point of view of the 54th's white commanding officer.
Why did we see the black troops through his eyes - instead of seeing him through theirs? To put it another way, why does the top billing in this movie go to a white actor? I ask, not to be perverse, but because I consider this primarily a story about a black experience and do not know why it has to be seen largely through white eyes. Perhaps one answer is that the significance of the 54th was the way in which it changed white perceptions of black soldiers changed them slowly enough, to be sure, that the Vietnam War was the first in American history in which troops were not largely segregated.
But there is still, I suspect, another and quite different film to be made from this same material. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Matthew Broderick as Robert Gould Shaw. Denzel Washington as Trip. Cary Elwes as Cabot Forbes. Morgan Freeman as Rawlins. Jihmi Kennedy as Sharts.
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