Mel Gibson's Woad Movie

Rating: 3/10 (14 June 2007)

As a man born in Scotland but brought up in England I am in a position to see both sides of the war fought by one means or another for a thousand years.The Scots,perceived as the good guys by the rest of the world if the comments on this site are anything to go by,have,as is customary for smaller nations,held the moral high ground for as long as the conflict has been going on.Yet the English,for most of the time are hardly aware of the war at all.Only when the two nations played each other at football(soccer )at Wembley Stadium and what the sports media referred to as "The Tartan Hordes" descended on London did Anglophobia raise its ugly head above the parapet . Mostly the English can't be doing with the "Scotland the Brave" nonsense as sung in English pubs by drunken Scots,glaring round aggressively to deter any gainsayers."Get a life",is the usual quietly muttered retort. One would like to think that cockneys singing "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner" would be treated as tolerantly should the circumstances be reversed.And tolerance is the key word in any consideration of Mel Gibson's "Braveheart".Because the movie is so ridiculously biased as to be almost racist in concept and execution..Simplistic and bad history,Little Mel has allowed himself to make a movie swayed by resentment and hatred,real and imagined grudges and the sort of chauvinism that,had it been expressed by the English,would have been sneered at by Guardianistas all over Highgate. Did a single English person object to this farrago of nationalistic fervour?No.To most it's a matter of supreme indifference that yet another Hollywood director sets out to rubbish the nation.Get a life guys - better yet get a history book.
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