Beulah Land
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Movie Review: southern bell
Summary: 4 Stars
if you enjoy Gone With The Wind you`ll enjoy this movie.A look at the hardships before during and after the civil war.Movie Review: stereotypes
Summary: 3 Stars
Personally, I was disappointed. I won't even comment on the fact that the primary actors scarcely age 5 minutes over a period of 25 years. More important is the fact that the acting is uneven and many of the 'southern' accents syrupy and forced. I also thought that the film dragged in many places. Also, quite unforunately, the story and sets parallel 'Gone with the Wind'. The setting is even in Georgia and we see virtually the same fires, crippled soldiers and escaping civilians. There's even an evil ex-overseer trying to buy the stricken plantation. The problem is that 'Beulah Land' isn't nearly so good.
I gave the film 3 stars, though, based on the complexity the film depicted in the relationship between slaves and slave-holders. It was a love-hate relationship with probably more love than hate. There was something like interracial harmony but with an undercurrent of discontent. Paternalism was rife and when the Yankee artist asks the mistress of the plantation why she won't free her slaves, the woman answers...'but what will become of them?'
Southern culture reckoned that blacks couldn't care for themselves and therefore there was little alternative but to continue a troubled system. Yes, there was also fear that 'freed' slaves would turn on their previous masters. Emancipation occurred and the Federal Government, in all too many instances, set itself up as the greatest plantation master of all because, after all... 'What will become of them?' It is an ironic and fearful thing that racial relations in the U.S.A. have become increasingly strained since the early Civil Rights Era. There has been true progress in the social and economic status of blacks but...in my humble opinion...either despite of because of this progress interracial relationships are worse now than at any time in the past.
Ron Braithwaite, author of novels--'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'--on the Conquest of Mexico
Movie Review: A bit boring
Summary: 3 Stars
The story line of Beulah Land is very predictable, and I found it boring. Did not watch the whole thing; lost interest. It does feature some great stars who performed well, however.
Movie Review: disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
Bealah land is a very glossy version of the old south very ordinary not my favouriteMovie Review: almost hideous
Summary: 1 Stars
as everyone else seems to reveal: yes, this is very much a soap opera. what everyone else doesn't seem to reveal is that it is BAD soap opera. characters appear out of nowhere and disappear almost as quickly. most of the acting is almost laughable; lesley ann warren is the only actor who gives anything approaching a watchable performance.
to be honest, i couldn't believe how bad this was.