Sunday, May 13, 2012
"Glory" Reflection
The movie "Glory" is pretty accurate with its facts and diary entries by Shaw. The makers of this movie did a lot of research for this movie. The black regiment couldn't fight or do a normal soldier's job. Instead, they have to do the brunt work and the unwanted jobs until they were finally allowed to prove themselves near the end. However, I believe that there should be more racism during that time period because they didn't really insult the contrabands much verbally or physically. I was surprised by the fact that Shaw had African acquaintances because of the racism people had at that time. I can totally understand why 54th regiment of Massachusetts has become one of the most famous regiments in the history of the Civil War. They are motivated and hardworking.
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The maker's of the movie must have put a lot of effort and research into it by using Shaw's letters to his parents, but they did seem to make a lot up in the gaps. I agree that they should have shown more racism between the white soldiers and the black contrabands.
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