Gettysburg, 1993

Rating: Null/10 (1 January 2017)

Gettysburg is a great war movie if you are interested in them (war movies) as I am. Many historically based movies are out there in this world and this is one of them...although it took pretty much 4 hours to watch the whole thing, it held my attention. Through the constant fighting, and watching the stress the commanders and soldiers were experiencing were very real. Real, as in you're fully attentive to see what's going to happen next and if the North will really be able to keep the South back! Historically, you can also relate as many of the true issues of the Civil War were mentioned and/or apparent as you watched. One, being the difficulty of loss and the tragedy of the situation...men from the same country were killing each other...men who were friends were supposed to be killing each other...starvation, over-exertion,and simply, yet, very importantly...the necessity of winning the battle of Gettysburg. The battle that we all know, was the defining moment of the war and its winner. Along with the historical allusions, the characters made it very real-the division was quite clear. One of the colonels had even said that this war was being fought due to the fact that it is the right thing to do; and along with that,freed states vs. slave states is not something that should be happening and that unity is an essential value of a functioning country.
In all, the con for me was the time consumption...however the action and the history made it enjoyable.