Stereotypical portrayal of the southern whites.

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2011)

I hated this movie. It is not that I don't think what some did in the South wasn't a horrible crime, but this film stereotypes the South. Senator Julian Bond, a black senator, rightly said that the 'FBI really did nothing for blacks in the South'. I can't disagree with this. I love Hackmann, but his character is an insult. He is shown as trying to be Robin Hood, but that wasn't the truth.
I also am tired of movies that stereotype poor southern whites. In this movie, all white and poor southern males are portrayed as "monsters". That's bigotry just as bad as any bigotry. Worse than that, it is false history. Just like how Gone Like The Wind glorifies the Northerners and the wealthy plantation owners, it was the Northerners and the wealthy plantation owners who ruined the South - pitting poor whites against poor blacks. So, where is the "evil" rich white character in this movie? Nowhere. In other words, all poor whites are "evil", but you can't possibly indict rich northerners and rich southerners, who kept poor people of both races enslaved and against one another. This movie is so wrong.