The American Civil War provides a landscape of ready-made horror, a canvas of human cruelty that needs no supernatural embellishment. Resurrection Road begins on this familiar, blood-soaked ground. It presents Barabbas, a man who escaped the shackles of slavery only to find himself in the chains of the Union army, imprisoned and facing a court-martial.
His racist commanders present him with a choice that is no choice at all: lead a small unit of Black soldiers on a suicide mission into the Arkansas mountains or face the hangman’s rope. The objective is to silence the guns of Fort Defiance, a Confederate stronghold from which no Union soldier has ever returned. His reward for success is the oft-promised, seldom-delivered dream of 40 acres and a mule.
The film establishes a grim bargain, where freedom is a commodity to be earned through impossible odds, hinting that the cannons and rifles of the...
His racist commanders present him with a choice that is no choice at all: lead a small unit of Black soldiers on a suicide mission into the Arkansas mountains or face the hangman’s rope. The objective is to silence the guns of Fort Defiance, a Confederate stronghold from which no Union soldier has ever returned. His reward for success is the oft-promised, seldom-delivered dream of 40 acres and a mule.
The film establishes a grim bargain, where freedom is a commodity to be earned through impossible odds, hinting that the cannons and rifles of the...
- 6/7/2025
- by Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi
- Gazettely
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