Free State of Jones 2016 123movies

Watch: Free State of Jones 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Set during the Civil War, Free State of Jones tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War..
Plot: In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
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	6.9/10 Votes: 58,586
	47% | RottenTomatoes
	53/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1290 Popularity: 19.681 | TMDB

Reviews:

Quality film.

‘Free State of Jones’ tells the true story of Newton Knight’s role in the American Civil War. As you’d hope/expect, it leads to captivating viewing. Matthew McConaughey is superb, while he’s supported excellently by Mahershala Ali.

It’s tough to watch in large portions given the obvious things from the Civil War era, from the war itself but also to slavery. I had never heard of Newton Knight, so it was very interesting for me to see it unfold and learning bits – even with some creative license, I’m sure. It also serves an important message that slavery didn’t end with the Emancipation Proclamation.

I personally found the film very well paced and extremely nicely shot, McConaughey and Ali are the stars but there are also notable performances from the likes of Gugu Mbatha-Raw. It’s a great film, one that’s worth a watch. Sadness and heart aplenty.

**A country that existed for a brief time in the history of American.**

Once again, it proves that the critics are so dumb. In this people to people and people to filmmakers contact era, no one listens to them. Let them do their own sideshow. This was partially based on the real events that takes place in the following years of 1862. When America was fighting a civil war, a man named Newton Knight returned home from the battlefield where he started to help the farmers who were robbed by the armymen. Its like they are fighting their own war, to protect the land and the crops. They knew the consequence and so they were prepared for it.

This is over a two hour long film and I think they had covered everything nicely. At some stage it looked like the Daniel Craig’s ‘Defiance’. But it reveals many events like changing time and the atmosphere, how they adapted to it along to move on. In the opening scene only they had shown us the war, but very soon it moved away to tell what’s happening off the battlefield. Like how it’s affecting the people. So the resistance emerges and the days going by they gain large power in the region. Very interesting perspective, though everything in the film was not true despite overall plot was inspired by the history.

Matthew McConaughey alone steered the ship. You will like his performance. The locations were good, but most of them were either farmland or swamp. There’s a little event that follows the 80 years later, just to disclose some court law debate over interracial marriage. Not a must see film, maybe if you are an American, then it might be, but other than that its a good watch. I hope the people would realise that and watch it.

_8/10_

A true story about the muddiness of Southern Bravery and Corruption and the disheartening Truth about Race and Racism
FREE STATE OF JONES, A REVIEW AND A COUPLE OF ASIDES

My father grew up in Soso, Mississippi. My mother passed away in January of this year. So when the movie came out, and he said he thought he would like to see it, I offered to go with him. He liked that, so today, on my parents 62nd wedding anniversary, which we did not mention, but I am certain was on his mind as much as mine, we went.

The Movies of Lake Worth is in a little strip shopping center out near the Florida Turnpike. It was nice that I could pull up near the curb and let my 84 year old father out with his walker. Nicer still that the walk to the theater where it was showing was the first door inside. The rows were spacious so he could even push the walker in front of him, and we sat.

My father has often talked about the Knight N___gs, of course being an old white man from Mississippi, he uses the word. Funny thing, he doesn’t use the “N-word” in conversation, but i guess because the community held the Knights in a “Special” place, this was the title he knows to call them by. He recently told me that his mother, born in 1910 was picking black berries or strawberries and she and her family stopped at the Knight house to get water. That was apparently the only time anyone in his family had anything to do with the Knights.

The movie does a good job of not sugar coating anything, from the battlefield scenes to the trial for interracial marriage (shades of the gay marriage struggle in Mississippi today), to the killings of both white and black folks. The saddest part of the story is how a handful of runaway slaves helped Newton and then many more whites, but in all too common southern white fashion, the white folks, when the war was over and the deserters were safe, they turned on the blacks, even the ones who had saved their lives.

I know the British, the Belgians, the Germans, and 100 other countries, including the US Army has been guilty of equally disappointing human behavior, but this is a story about my people. Some of the people on both sides of the story are probably my ancestors. I know some fought in the Civil War, as confederates. Some probably hid out in the swamp and then betrayed those who helped them when it was time to bring Mississippi out of the dark.

The movie doesn’t shy away, it doesn’t spare anybody. There are two things I wonder about though.

Knight comes off as being nearly a saint. Maybe he was. Really, with the exception of Rachel and Moses, the Black folks don’t have a lot of leadership. Again, maybe because of the times, they didn’t, maybe it was understood the being Black and “uppity” was a good way to get killed. I just wonder if it was as much the brave smart white Newt, or if he took a bit of opportunity. Or, more likely, Hollywood has a big bankable white male star and they wanted to give him even more glory than the story had.

I don’t know. The whole Free State of Jones is a history so hard to find much truth in. In fact, Mississippi is a place to find much truth in. It is my birth state, but I find more heartache than joy in it. I enjoyed the time with my dad, and it was interesting to see some kind of truth about a bizarre piece of history we have a tangential connection to.

My father’s only comment was, “Some people say it was so bad back than, but it was.” I think he is right about that.

I was disappointed the theater 100% white people, and with the exception of a 20 something young man and woman who could have been his young mother or older girlfriend, everybody was closer to my dad’s age than even my 56 years.

If you are interested in an unvarnished view of parts of American history that you may not know much about, go see the movie. It was well done. It might even be close to the truth.

A nice piece of American History!
A nice piece of American History and probably the best role of the great actor Matthew Mcconaughey.

The Casting is also very good, Specially Gugu Mbatha-Raw or Mahershala Ali (seen in “Hunger Games” or “Predators” in 2010).

Even if some images are really violent, the film keeps a lot of beauty and show the real courage of the mens who decide to fight for the right things.

Don’t miss this film under any circumstances!

Much more interesting than the movie “Lincoln” signed by Steven Spielberg and more instructive than ” 12 years a slave ” of the director Steve McQueen.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 19 min (139 min)
Budget 50000000
Revenue 25035950
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Biography, Drama
Director Gary Ross
Writer Gary Ross, Leonard Hartman
Actors Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali
Country United States, China
Awards 3 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa XT, Panavision Primo, PVintage, Super Speed MKII and Ultra Speed MKII Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (3.4K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema