fantastic movie

Rating: 10/10 (3 April 2016)

Glory is a very moving movie about one of the first black regiments in the American Civil War, focusing on the regiment and Robert Shaw who became the colonel of it. The movie shows the racial struggles involved and the war fighting. It focuses on the sad fact of slavery and the struggles to overcome racism in the Union army. This is probably one of the top several best war movies. The acting is really good. Some of the particularly moving scenes are when Denzel Washington's character is whipped and he tries to be tough and you see a tear run down his face, when the soldiers start tearing up their pay checks out of protest of them being lower than white soldier's, when a white soldier who had made racist remarks to the black soldiers shouts encouragement when they're going to the Battle of Fort Wagner, and when they're dead and being put together for burial.