Loved it!

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2004)

This was a really good movie. After reading several comments, I have to address some of the
issues with the execution of the film. Nicole Kidman's accent was actually pretty good. I thought she
sounded reasonably like a South Carolinian.
Several viewers mentioned the lack of African-American
roles/issues in the film. Because the mountains of NC were home
to a large percentage of poor farmers, sharecroppers and
mountain folk, there weren't many slaves in the area and mountain
people were some of the last to get involved in the war. They had
no interest in it one way or the other since they didn't own slaves or
plantations. Their plight would remain largely unchanged no
matter the outcome. Many were Union sympathizers on the slavery
issue, but served their native South when NC finally got involved in
the war.
The language might have been a little flowery and awkward, but I
thought easily overlooked.
I thought the scenes of the effects of war on the homefront
(starvation, worthless money, home guard and yankee raids)
brought something to the film not always seen in other Civil
War-era movies.