It's rare that you can find a film that appears to have been such a superb all-round team effort, but "Breaker Morant" must come close to such a film.
The production design, art direction, script, director, cast and one could go on, are so well knitted together that you feel that you are witnessing actual events instead of a interpretation of actual events. Even South Australia looks like how one would have thought this section of South Africa would have looked like at the time.
Before I saw the film, I was expecting a film that would just lend more folk-lore to the Morant legend, but the film present a believable account and presented it in a firm, calculating fashion that attempts to show what happened in a more calculating light.
Well recommended as both a film to watch, an example of all the crafts that make a superb film and a film that easily deserved all its awards.
The production design, art direction, script, director, cast and one could go on, are so well knitted together that you feel that you are witnessing actual events instead of a interpretation of actual events. Even South Australia looks like how one would have thought this section of South Africa would have looked like at the time.
Before I saw the film, I was expecting a film that would just lend more folk-lore to the Morant legend, but the film present a believable account and presented it in a firm, calculating fashion that attempts to show what happened in a more calculating light.
Well recommended as both a film to watch, an example of all the crafts that make a superb film and a film that easily deserved all its awards.
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