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Harriet (2019)
Not Wildly inaccurate as Reveiws claim
Parts are dramatized of course (her visions however were not), and order/dates of events seems a bit 'smudged' and rearranged , but the spirit of it is true.
Also major points that they didn't feel the need to pull a passion of the christ and glorify the suffering of slaves to 'show how bad it was'. The suffering is shown though Harriet's words and the scars they all carry.
*plot details thought not spoilers below*
Perhaps the difference is that I was fact checking as I watched but the only outright fabrication I found was that she jumped into the river to escape the first time.
However they did a beautiful job of depicting her first steps into freedom just as she described the moment.
Equally when Harriet calls out the UGRR for wanting it to play it safe after the Fugitive Slave Act, gave me chills.
Her visions are also debatible in accuracy (but again not in fact) as Harriet herself beleived they really were "revelations from God"
To that end the whole subplot of her Master's son gunning for her with a Slave tracker seems to be less historical fact and more a hollywood representation of just how bad people wanted to hunt her down.
None of this takes away from the movie though. It's so well done, and would be a great way to introduce people to Harriet's story if only for them to go on and learn more.
Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2016)
Mixed Feelings But Still Loyal
Like many others I have been waiting less that patiently for this movie since the release of the original. In the end after a first viewing I've come out with mixed feelings tat leave me both excited and less than pleased.
When it comes to the production Alleluia blows its predecessors out of the water. The visuals are amazing an it's clear that there was a much used budget for effects this time around. The easiest example I can cite is the opening sequence on the train and the 'sky' over Hell when we return below.
In that same spirit the cast is amazing. David Hasselhoff as an over the top designer was hilarious and Barry Bostwick could convey more with one bulging eye than some actors can in a whole movie. Adam Pascal's Agent I found to be oddly sympathetic for being such a theoretically unlikable character. For Terrance Zdunich and Paul Sorvino I need only give a HAIL! and ALLELUIA!
My complaint is with the execution of the story. In this installment we really only got one Fable and to me it started to feel like (no pun intended) they were beating a dead horse. What's more is we really didn't progress in the overall plot for having a nearly doubled run time. Yes we needed to set up Heaven but it would have been nice to see it in a series of back stories as with Hell than one single Fable for one single character that leads to nothing more than the first shot of the war at best.
*SPOILER* If you are not an Emilie Autumn/Painted Doll fan... you might be better off just skipping this one.