Political Strife - There were
two different kinds of strife happening in this way during the film, 1) The obvious
tension and strife between two empires at war, the British and the French, and 2) the
emerging strife and tensions between the British Crown and its soldiers and the
colonials who are not blindly loyal. While no Americans were really talking about
independence yet, the differences between these two peoples and their views was made
very plain in the film. For example, think of the time when Duncan tries to recruit
troops for the militia, or when those troops try to obtain terms from General
Webb.
Human Suffering -
Obviously, it is a war, and of course the soldiers are suffering, but
there were also many civilians caught in the crossfire. There are those who are killed
on the frontier settlements by a war party of Huron, and those that are massacred along
with British troops by Magwa's men. We also have the individual suffering of the
characters as they struggle to escape Magwa's desire for
revenge.
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