This is painful to watch. Overladen with stereotyped characters that play on some kind of fanciful popular idea of how life was back on the colonial frontier. The Scandinavian settlers, all blithely optimistic and talking like the Swedish chef out of the Muppets: "sho happie to be here in thees vunderful land of opportunity!" The British administrators and senior army officers portrayed as snobbish, incompetent, uncaring and arrogant. The Native Americans all dressed like extras out 'Last of the Mohicans', speaking in totemic pidgin English with lots of exclamations like we've suddenly been transported back to a 1950s B movie western. Then the historical inaccuracies, the schmaltzy music, the perpetual sunshine and ultra-clean sets. What's to like? In this world of revised and realistic perceptions of life on the American frontier, with such excellent examples as 'Dances with Wolves', 'The Revenant' and 'Hostiles', how on earth are films like this still being made?
Review of Alone Yet Not Alone
