“Free State of Jones,” directed and written by Gary Ross (“The Hunger Games,” “Seabiscuit”), is pretty typical Hollywood History. Although based on the true story of a Mississippi community who “seceded” from the Confederacy in the middle of the Civil War, much of the truth of “Free State of Jones” gets muddled in a narrative told mainly through the point of view of one man: Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), a deserter of the Confederate Army, the ostensible leader of the Jones Army and an apparent early proponent of interracial marriage and equal rights for former slaves.
Free State of Jones
Free State of Jones
Free State of Jones
“Free State of Jones,” directed and written by Gary Ross (“The Hunger Games,” “Seabiscuit”), is pretty typical Hollywood History. Although based on the true story of a Mississippi community who “seceded” from the Confederacy in the middle of the Civil War, much of the truth of “Free State of Jones” gets muddled in a narrative told mainly through the point of view of one man: Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), a deserter of the Confederate Army, the ostensible leader of the Jones Army and an apparent early proponent of interracial marriage and equal rights for former slaves.