CSA: The Confederate States of America

All those historical nonsenses are painful to wach.

Really well put-together. A little one-note, but it plays it incredibly well, really showing the ramifications of each crucial point in this alternate history. Does a great job of making it feel like it's happening in a real world where actions have consequence. Surprisingly poignant.

don't remember it well

Not even close. CSA would collapse within five years.

A well-made mockumentary that it’s both funny and horrifying, it feels like The Onion and yeah, the fact that all of those products were real was a depressing but not surprising final blow

Terrible. Not in the least bit funny. I really felt like I was watching something made by an extreme racist who just wanted an excuse to put their racism on the screen. Even the fake commercials were terrible and felt like they were written by an 11 year old. Also, this think was released in 2005 but had a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Great counterfactual

Awkward to watch. While this movie tries to present a social commentary on the US in the lens of a "what if?" Confederate States, it just comes off as a low budget film that seems like a directors excuse to make racist jokes. Not entertaining at all.

C.S.A. sports a clever premise in the form of politicized revue show veiled as a send-up of Ken Burns-style docs, which is astutely propelled for the better part of the film. There are slick jabs, but generally its device is played for caustic discomfort over easy laughs, often blurring the two. Closer to Zelig than to Bamboozled, it's a minor escapade that sometimes scores with ballsy ideas.

Interesting "what if", albeit a little tedious

An alternate-history look at race relations in the US, which succeeds or fails on the execution of its premise. Clever at times, but frequently bogged down in its own polemics. An indie film in every way - relentless, passionate and aggressive, but also self-righteous. With few performances, low production values, and severe reliance on voice over, this is the opposite of spectacle cinema. Ultimately, although it reaches for biting satire, it mostly hits on farcical comedy.

While historically intricate and at times fascinating, the film is bogged down by the film's creators' own political agenda. It just went over the top in its portrayal of a cartoonishly evil South. So instead of crafting a scathing satire, the film often falls back on self-righteously finger-wagging.

Funny and poignant - a great 'what if' movie.

Good to see "what if"....

The failure of this mockumentary is really the failure of many alternate histories: the desire to shape a narrative to fit the ends of the creators. It shows some good promise, but in the end just gets way too dull, and tries to make a point with their Real World products (yes, I know about Darkie Toothpaste). Nice idea, doesn't work in the end.

The advertisements in between segments were a little too much, if they were to make the fake commercials actually look like something you would see on tv instead of a SNL skit it would be a much better movie.

Not actually too bad. A very interesting what-if scenario, but certainly has it's problems with execution

"Kevin Willmott "program" is a well-crafted ruse." - Nick Schager

Great idea, so-so execution. Still, a vital reminder that freedom and morality, as social constructions, are overwhelmingly defined by those with power.

A novel idea for a mockumentary is somewhat hindered by its lazy implementation. The fake interviews are just completely terrible at aping the Ken Burns style, which is clearly the goal. It's so obviously people reading a script that the satirical aesthetic is greatly damaged. It feels less like peering into an alternate universe and more like one stale 90-minute joke. I hate to criticize a movie for its obviously limited production value, but it made it pretty hard to get through.

Great idea - a mockumentary of a 21st century America where the South won the civil war - but ultimately plays it a little too safe.

Mockumentary's are hilarious in and of themselves, but a look at how America would be if the South would have won the war is great.