Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by gware (D) on November 13, 2003 at 04:29:12

In Reply to: First (local Boston) review of Master and Commander posted by clarkjohnsen on November 12, 2003 at 13:49:42:

more familiar than this reviewer; most of the British navy non-commissioned sailors were kidnapped by organised Press Gangs in places like Bristol; and once aboard flogged if they didnt work or behave, killed even
Youths would return from a couple of years at sea and after experiencing constant malnutrition and maltreatment and toothless from scurvy their own mothers wouldnt recognise them
The reviewer is imagining a far, far more egalitarian world than that which existed in Napoleon era Britain!
Eric