I gotta say, I kind of love how wonderfully polite James Grime is being, in that second review, to A) his hypothetical interviewer and B) the film/filmmakers it/themselves. "No, it is a very good film, it's just that it's wildly inaccurate about the most basic facts of everything it purports to be about. Otherwise, spot-on filmmaking!" As Guillermo del Toro pointed out at The Devils last night, there's a big difference between deliberately mistranslating the facts to make a visual point which is nevertheless faithful to the emotional tone of the era (no, the Sun King never dressed Protestants as blackbirds and shot them; yes, Protestants were essentially treated like animals who deserved to die) and misrepresenting the facts because you think no one will care and, to some degree, it just doesn't matter whether they care or not, so long as everybody involved gets an Oscar clip moment.
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