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Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War (2004)
Compelling and Balanced
17 November 2004 - 4 out of 4 users found this review helpful.
I've seen this film twice and both times it was a sell out audience (at least in New Haven and at the second screening in Rhode Island). Friends found it stimulating. While engrossing it was also objective and this alone is commendable.
All the elements worked--from the on-camera interviews, to the production design, the cinematography and editing, the music of Emmy winner Charles David Denler and Joanne Shenandoah, dramatic reenactments,the voice of Roy Scheider, the atmospheric locales-- this is a winner all the way. It certainly makes you think about the bloody origins of the US.
This film deconstructs the Puritan myth as we currently know it. An eye opener.
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