brings a movie-star presence to this brutally violent civil war drama, with a physical stillness and defiantly steady gaze. It is inspired by the true story of “Whipped Peter”, the escaped slave who in 1863, having enlisted at a Union military camp in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, showed his horrendously scarred back to two civilian photographers there, shockingly disfigured with a lattice of raised welts and whip marks.
Peter is electrified by news that Lincoln’s soldiers are freeing slaves in Baton Rouge, across the swamp, and the jittery, trigger-happy white overseers, already unnerved by the enemy’s advance, are terrified that this rumour will make their slaves ungovernable. Peter escapes across the swamp with slave masters in pursuit on horseback and with dogs, led by an unruffled, pipe-smoking man called Fassel , a familiar figure in this kind of narrative.
Great, another slavery / civil rights / racism movie. Just what we need
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