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I don't know if this was true in the 'time period of the movie' but a trait that emerges from the year of the movie being made tried is a man can be proud and raise a family on his own without a wife. Single-parent homes are increasing nowadays, but they are not just headed by the mother now, there has been an increase in single parents father households. Yes I know the wife had died in the movie, but just saying that that is an aspect of today's time that comes out in the movie, at least to me. --Ashley Wilkins | I don't know if this was true in the 'time period of the movie' but a trait that emerges from the year of the movie being made tried is a man can be proud and raise a family on his own without a wife. Single-parent homes are increasing nowadays, but they are not just headed by the mother now, there has been an increase in single parents father households. Yes I know the wife had died in the movie, but just saying that that is an aspect of today's time that comes out in the movie, at least to me. --Ashley Wilkins | ||
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| + | I think it's kind of funny that a movie that so embodies the American national myth was directed by a German and starred two Australians. But seriously, The Patriot is such a perfect representation of what late twentieth and twenty-first century Americans want American history to be. The Revolution (yes, with a capital R) was in large part saved by a group of plucky, underdog militia. The British were either quaint and out of touch (Cornwallis) or ruthlessly evil (Tavington). And, of course, racism was overcome and the American Revolution created a new sense of equality...that wouldn't be put into effect until the 1960s. Whoops. - Sarah Richardson | ||
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