Analysis Of The Conspirator

The film “The Conspirator” is relating back to the civil war era. The movie was basically about the trial of this lady named Mary Surratt, one of the conspirators in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. The actor who played Mary Surratt’s was not so identical. She had all her flaws intact. They could’ve presented her in a more realistic manner. Also, the script was at times too weighed down by political agenda, the dialogue stiff, and the characters sometimes reciting ideology that did not feel genuine. The character of secretary of war Edwin Stanton was not so good either. He was sort of cartoonish. Kevin Kline salvaging role managed to make the character human, despite the poor writing. So the actors in my opinion were not portrayed to accurate.
A military tribunal, rather than a civilian court, was chosen as the venue because it’s more lenient rules of evidence, government officials thought, would enable the court to get to the bottom of what was then perceived by the public as a vast conspiracy. All eight alleged conspirators were tried simultaneously. Historian Laurie Verge has commented that "Only in the case of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd is there much controversy as to the guilt or innocence of one of the defendants." Surratt was given special considerations due to her illness and gender during the trial. In the courtroom, she sat apart from the other prisoners. Sources differ as to whether an armed guard sat on either side of Mrs. Surratt, as they did the other prisoners during the trial. While the others wore wrist and ankle manacles in the courtroom, she did not. She was also permitted a bonnet, fan, and veil in order to hide her face from spectators. As her illness worsened during the trial, she was moved to a larger and more comfortable prison cell. Surratt was charged with abetting, aiding, concealing, counseling, and harboring her