HF Civil War Hoax

[matthew mckeon]

During quarantine time I'd like to think I caught up on the classics. However I didn't. I did see "Civil War Hoax" on Amazon Prime, a "mockamentary" about people who believe the Civil War didn't actually happen. One guy thinks its aliens, another that its a coverup that the French and Indian Wars never ended, and my favorite, the war was an elaborate fiction created by guys who just needed an excuse to get out of the house and drink with their buddies, "A four year frat party," exclaims one "historian"

It goes on far longer than it is funny, like an SNL sketch that lasts an hour. And a couple of parts aren't funny at all. Its ends with a surprisingly sincere plea to abandon comforting myth for history.

 

[JOHN42768]

Well if it is in print, it could help with the toilet paper shortage

 

[DixieRifles]

Put it up there next to "Lincoln Vs Zombies" or whatever that movie was.

 

[matthew mckeon]

It's a satire. I propose, modestly, that satire sometimes goes over people's heads.

In the recent movie Sword of Trust, comedian Marc Marcon plays a pawn shop owner who is offered a Civil War sword that somehow is evidence that the South won the Civil War.