[Warning: The following contains some mild spoilers for The Uprising]
Into this time where so many might feel powerless in the face of governmental decision-making, comes Paul Greengrass’ new film The Uprising.
The Oscar-nominated writer-director-producer digs into England’s 14th-century Peasant’s Revolt — a story that will surely ring bells today — when the disenfranchised rose up against authority to fight for autonomy and change. Leading the charge is Andrew Garfield as a humble farmer known only as ‘Ploughman’.
In a feudal era when the king simultaneously led church and state and the common people were known
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