APUSH Movie Review: Cold Mountain

APUSH Movie Review: Cold Mountain
In summary, Ada Monroe comes from Charlestown because of her father, a preacher, and sees Inman as he is helping to build the chapel. Inman leaves as part of the Confederate army when the war begins and fights at the crater battle. During a nighttime mission, he is wounded and brought to a hospital in Virginia where he flees and leaves to reunite with Ada in North Carolina. As a deserter, he constantly flees from the Home Guard. Inman intervenes when he finds a dissolute preacher, Solomon Veasey, attempting to murder his (the preacher’s) black pregnant lover. Veasey joins him on his quest but is shot while they are escaping the Home Guard. Meanwhile, Ada inherits Black Cove Farm after her father dies and Ruby comes and helps her maintain the farm. Sally gets caught with two of her sons, deserters, and nearly dies while her husband and sons are killed. The three women are joined by Ruby’s father and other deserting musicians in the winter. In the end, Inman reunites with Ada and Ruby
In this respect, the film remains remarkably unbiased. Not completely unbiased, however, as the film skirts around the slavery issue and almost eliminates it entirely. I believe it was necessary in maintaining, in a sense, the purity of the film by allowing a Confederate to remain completely the protagonist. The story is not about slavery, thus it was rightly not the focus of the film. I enjoyed the movie and would recommend it due to its mostly unbiased and historically accurate plot that is still enticing enough to capture an audience. More than just a love story or war film, it shows an unexpected perspective of Confederate families, who are usually