Rae-Anne Lloyd

It is a relief that they lost the Civil War but in the context of this show it is very depressing to watch these characters due to the lack of suspense we all know they lost and the melodrama is very forced. More of a propaganda tool to say why they should have won in their horrible depictions of black people. First time watching it and it has definitely not aged well as one reviewer wrote. I keep expecting it to turn into a horror because only there I would find such delusions in film as it explores a historical event from a fictional standpoint. The sad thing is that it is the desperate attempt of a southern belle of a writer coming to terms with the loss of the war (information hidden from her) without abandoning her family beliefs that black people were better off as slaves despite having the faculties of common sense about her to know that people would not want to be slaves. The slaves can only talk about the lives of the white people for the act to make sense and it is painful to watch. She also beats a horse to death then purposefully steps over its dead corpse without ever a backwards glance, but anyways. All the black people are slow talking and slow thinking and even if they were then malnutrition and abuse were the actual cause. Why does she hold onto this fantasy in her books? Because they lived in the early 1900s not too far from a ghetto filled with black people who were regularly used as strange fruit in response to any wild accusations made and then they finally rioted in response. This terrified the bejeezers out of her poor spirit. Some of her inspiration was KKK romance novellas, I kid you not. The person who wrote this had seriously messed up values that were so scandalous that people who must have been family destroyed her remaining manuscripts later on when they were found, the movie is now a creepy spectacle. I would be ashamed to be in anyway associated with this even if the dresses are pretty.