Fabulous film

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2004)

I watched the film for the second time, this time on DVD. I was again totally swept away by this passionate drama. After having seen it the first time I read the book and fell in love with the whole project all over again.
What a great book and what a heart wrenching film. Such a sad story but so well told and generally honest to the book. The DVD has a second disc that is devoted to the making of the film and has an especially wonderful live performance done a few days after the film opened to a big audience. In the performance are most of the cast and all of the singers. The music alone is worth getting the soundtrack to. I tell you, this is one of my all time favourites and I intend to buy the DVD. A violent film for sure but honest to the civil war history. When asked if it was an anti war film the comment of the music director was that it was an "anti-fear" film. Something to bear in mind in the post-911 America. Superb film.