Word: pickett
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...deserves to be here. The music in Alan Parker's let's-put-the-show- on-right- here-in-Dublin entertainment is classic '60s rhythm and blues performed by white folks with a brogue, but the spirit is reverent and genial, not culturally imperialistic. The soul is part Wilson Pickett, part early Beatles; the guts are supplied by 16-year-old lead singer Andrew Strong. See this roadhouse lark again and feel better about...
...underclass wish to be black! And how it must have tempted Parker, who in his recent films (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise) has told America what to think about racial issues, to insert a lecture during the break. Here, though, the big drama is whether soul survivor Wilson Pickett will show up at the band's big gig. The picture could be half an hour shorter or twice as long -- and that would be just fine, because The Commitments runs on rough charm and roadhouse melody. The film offers no message, no solutions, only a great time...
...Most impressively, The Civil War manages to convey the horror of war in understated words. After the calamity of George Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, General Lee asked the shaken commander to regroup his division to repulse a possible counterattack. "General Lee," Pickett replied, "I have no division now." Following one bloody battle, a Massachusetts soldier's diary was discovered with this entry: "June 3, 1864, Cold Harbor, Virginia. I was killed." With American soldiers poised to fight once again, vignettes like these strike the strongest chord...