Reactions to The Patriot

Roland Emmerich shows a first-hand account of a family that has to face the struggles of the revolutionary war for independence in his motion picture, The Patriot. Although the movie focuses in more on the family’s struggle for survival through the war, this paper will focus more on the historical events of the picture. The movie depicted quite accurately on some levels, and more than likely, not so accurately on certain other levels in order to make the movie, a movie instead of a history lesson on dvd. The movie actually does end up being a very good movie and also a very good history lesson even though it does not try to be the latter.

The movie starts out right before the beginning of the war in Charlestown, South Carolina. A meeting was held in order to find out how the people of the town feel about the possibility of war. Throughout the meeting, loyalists, patriots, and neutral parties were all seen arguing their causes. The loyalists were, of course, arguing that the colonies have no right to self-government and they should serve the crown loyally, and anyone that does not do as the King says should be charged with treason. The patriots argued that there should n

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