Meanderings #217: "News of the World" and Acknowledging the Truth

Lass is More with Josh Lasser

English - March 30, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 7.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Tom Hanks is incredibly wonderful as the former Captain fighting for the Confederacy, Jefferson Kyle Kidd, in "News of the World." Hanks makes this man (in what is an incredibly well made movie), a defender of all that is good and true and right. He may be a man with demons, but he's a proud former soldier and we watch as he fights for one child.

How exactly does this movie not deal with the fact that Kidd went to war for the right to have slaves and is proud that he was a Captain in an army which had that as their purpose?