Free State of Jones may not be a gigantic "box-office smash" (currently it opened at #6 in its first weekend), but that shouldn't matter if the movie works, right? Here we have a piece of history not many know about: a man who rallied a group of poor farmers (and ex/runaway slaves) to make a 'free state of Jones' (as in the county) to combat those in the South in Mississippi who had too much while they were being sucked dry by the Confederacy to pay for the war. Sounds like a backwoods Civil War Robin Hood tale, right? Well, funny thing about that when a story takes place from 1862 to 1876... and then some.
Jack and Andrew watched Matthew McConaughey's latest film for grown-ups in this blockbuster movie season. If you have any thoughts or historical corrections to make you can send all queries and angry emails to wagesofcinema@gmail.com (but don't be too angry, we're nice enough guys, or at least try to be...)
(SPOILERS at 31:11)
