Braveheart Film Review
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Submitted by yzzed85 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Braveheart Film Review
Before I had viewed the enthralling story of William "Braveheart" Wallace I really had not seen a good depiction of Middle Age Scottish life at all, not in Humanities or any other Western Civilization class. The beauty of the film is that it illustrates both extremes of the British & Scottish noble and peasant life of the late 13th century and early 14th century. Braveheart managed to show both of these extremes by displaying daily activity, government, political battle, and stark contrast between class distinctions. Because this film is based on true historical events - namely the war for independence between Scotland and England there is most likely some flubbing as far as complete accuracy of events. However the film goes into more depth than just gory battles and men in kilts mooning the English (although that does happen). The depth of the film makes it special, allowing viewers to see the kind of life William Wallace and many Scots endured at the time, and I feel like this was touched on rather well regardless of event inaccuracies, if they were even present at all.
It is obvious from this film that during the 13th-14th centuries Scotland was a deeply impoverished land that was really not too reliant on monetary wealth. In fact it seems as though most of the economy was either agriculturally based, or dependent on cattle pasteurization. The life of the common people of Scotland was very simple, and was not all that important to their domineering neighbor England (Which is the reason why the rebellion started). Most folk who were not noble lived in a clan, and within this clan everyone either shared the same last name or they identified themselves as part of a named clan. William Wallace and the cohorts from his clan went by the name of the "Wallace" clan. Families lived in very scanty domiciles that were constructed out of earthly materials. The clans were kept in check by England through disciplinary action carried out by English soldiers. In...
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