This audacious,visceral, beautifully shot tale of a genuine-life outlaw in Louisianas swamps is one to watch out for in awards seasonMatthew McConaughey stars in this startling, or fiercely violent,superbly photographed and structurally audacious civil war drama, directed by Gary Ross. McConaughey plays the genuine-life accomplice soldier Newton Knight, or who leads a band of deserters and runaway slaves to form a Robin-Hood outlaw group in the Louisiana swamp and attempts to make Jones county secede from Mississippi and the confederacy to form the “free state of Jones”. He allies himself with slave Moses (Mahershala Ali),marries freed woman Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and after the war takes a lead on democratic reform: this legendary figure has already been the subject of a 1948 movie, Tap Roots, and with Van Heflin and Susan Hayward. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com