Interviews in Culloden

Culloden attempts to provide history in a realistic manner, which is helped by actually interviewing the people who are fighting in the battle. The filmmaker creates a more realistic film because he does something that an average film about an historic battle would not do. The film tries to show us the views of the men fighting, whether they believe they are fighting for a good cause or not. We are able to have more faith in the telling of the story because we are actually learning about the most important aspect of any war, the soldiers. We find out what their lives are like and what they are putting at risk by putting their lives on the line. The person behind the camera actually speaks to the soldiers and shows us the men that are fighting the battle while the people who decide to go to war stand in the background. The prince who has stubbornly decided to continue fighting sits on his horse as the soldiers give their lives for no reason. Through the interviews, we learn that the men fighting may not be the most important people in the world, but they are men with families and men who are risking everything for a lost cause. The interviews give the viewer a glimpse into the fear that the soldiers are feeling. Even though we know that there is no possible way that there was actually a camera filming the real battle, the interviews attempt to show us the possible attitudes that the actual soldiers could have had if they were being filmed. Interviews may make us aware that we are watching a film, but those used in Culloden bring us into a sense of reality affects us because we are looking into the eyes of the soldiers.