I may do a proper film review in days to come, if time permits, but for now this is merely a note to anyone who cannot remember the last time he went into a film a saw a good one:
Go see YOUNG WASHINGTON by Angels studios.
Well acted, period accurate, dramatic yet understated, and, at times, adorned with real quotes from Washington’s letters and journals. Ironically, this period accuracy will disappoint those used to Hollywood films, which are designed to be digested without chewing.
It neither makes Washington into a saint nor into a devil, but portrays him as a young man with ambition seeking to better his station in a society that does not welcome such things.
The acting was particularly well done. William Franklyn-Miller
portrays George Washington as a dignified and brave young man in whom the later general can be, perhaps, in part, adumbrated. George Washington in real life was towering tall, and the actor here fills that part well.
Mia Rogers does a stand out performance as his youthful infatuation, Sally Carry. And I particularly liked Ryan Begay as Tanacharison the Seneca war leader, called Half-King.
My limited historical knowledge detected no inaccuracies. After the film, I looked briefly online, and found no historians making any honest complaint. Dishonest complaint, yes, of course, those I found in abundance, but those were all matters of taste or emphasis, not matters of fact.
If you hear critics warning you away, be skeptical of those critics.
