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The implication is that even to look away from the atrocities onscreen would be an act of historical cowardice.
Im not travelin with ablack!
she snarls and Billy hates Clare back until she tells him shes Irish, not English.
I hate the feckin English!
she exclaims, and they bond.
(She is the nightingale; he calls himself the blackbird.)
Meanwhile, Hawkins seems incapable of going a mile through the woods without raping or killing someone.
He shoots natives, he shoots kids.
Hes the sordid history of English colonialism packed into one cartoonish character.
Kent makes some original visual choices.
