C.S.A. - Anyone Seen This Movie? (Vanity)

CSA - The Movie ^

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Any freepers seen this movie, or even heard of it? It's playing in very limited run, mostly arthouse type theatres.

The premise of the movie is quite good. It's a documentary of American history over the last 150 years. The twist is that it takes place in an alternate reality where the South won the Civil War. We see all the relevant events of the 20th century, but with a southern slant. And the documentary is sprinkled with commercials for products like the "Shackle" to keep your property in line, and the television sit-com "Leave it to Beulah."

Now, I saw it at an arthouse in Bethesda, Maryland, but you wouldn't know it was playing there from the marquee. They don't have any posters for it outside. It's even worse inside the building, as they did not put a poster up outside the auditorium it was showing in.

If you look at the poster, you'll understand why. It's a shot of Neal Armstrong walking on the moon, but instead of the American flag, he's planting a postage-stamp-sized version of the confederate flag. So in a bout of political correctness, the theatre opted not to display their own movie.

If you like alternate reality stories, this is a pretty good movie. They create archival footage of Lincoln before his death in 1905 after escaping to Canada via Harriet Tubman's underground railroad.

The movie's social value is that it redefines the fact that it was republicans who were in favor of abolition, and it tries to show how the democrats never did a thing to help the slaves.

[Smokin' Joe]

The other missed point, though, is that slavery was dying out of its own accord.

Why buy a slave and have to be responsible for feeding, clothing, medical, care, and housing, and always at risk of losing that investment to misfortune when you could hire an Irishman for the more hazardous jobs and be out nothing but a pittance to the widow if the worst happened?

When tobacco hogsheads and other heavy cargo were loaded in sailing ships at the wharf, it was the Irish who were in the hold securing the cargo, not the slaves. Criminy! the slaves were far too expensive for that duty.

Manumission would have come in time, without any war at all. Northerners just used the abolition movement to foment unrest to justify other nefarious policies against the South.