The Patriot Movie Analysis

At the beginning of the movie there is a family that lives in the late 1700s on a plantation. The Revolution is just beginning and the two eldest boys Gabriel and Thomas wanted to know who was going into the militia. They go to there Aunt Charlotte's and see the chaos that is happening in the town's center. A bunch of people have torches and are having “bodies” hung. The townspeople met to discuss whether or not they should go into war with England or not. Almost everyone agrees that they should go to war with England but Benjamin Martin does not. Benjamin thinks that they should try to talk to the King not to start a war. The eldest boy Gabriel storms out where they are getting recruits and signs up. Benjamin says that he should not do it …show more content…
The reason that nobody was at camp was because they gave everybody a week off and to get their families to a safe location. While this is happening Anne and everybody else in the village get told to go into the church. They then shut all the doors and windows and light the church on fire with everybody in it and everybody gets killed. One thing made it out of that fire and it was Benjamin’s wife’s necklace that Anne was wearing when she died. Gabriel sees this and is very upset. He takes about fifteen men and himself and go find the British soldiers and kill them all while everybody is dead except for Gabriel and their arch nemesis. After Gabriel thinks that he killed the British soldiers he goes up to them and the arch nemisis is really alive and stabs Gabriel in the stomach and Gabriel dies. Before he dies Benjamin finds him and lies him in his lap. Then the real battle scene begins. The American soldiers versus the British soldiers. They line up and the British soldiers have cannonballs and guns and spears. While we only have guns and spears. We are shooting at each other and then Benjamin yells charge and they all go running toward each other in a big