"i'm white too!"

confederate states of america. the movie was often referred to (within the movie) as c.s.a. so i'll use that also. truth be told, the movie was not at all what i was expecting. i'd heard there was a movie that based it's story on a, thankfully false, assumption that the confederacy won the civil war. being from the south i was naturally intrigued. the movie is actually a mockumentary within a movie that uses some artifacts from reality. that may sound confusing but it isn't. the movie begins with us being shown a documentary from a british television channel, the name of this documentary is the same title of the movie. as a black person, especially one with southern roots, watching this movie i naturally had a lot of feelings that may or may not be shared by others. within the documentary we are told of the horrors that america (CSA) bestows upon the rest of the world. for example, the CSA takes over mexico, south and central america; on the west coast, the asian population (mostly Chinese) are the slaves; america supports Hitler during WWII and other disturbing presuppositions of an america ruled by slave owners. the documentary was broken up by commercials featuring products like 'sambo axel grease' and 'darkie toothpaste'. disturbing doesn't really being to describe my sense during this film. what hit home though was that during the credits we are told that those products, and most others shown, are real and half were sold through the 1980s. though this movie is based on an historical fallacy it is or it should be, quite telling how frighteningly close to the truth a lot of the movie is. b+.