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Chris McWatters

Chris McWatters used to be a TV scriptwriter (The Bill, Crossroads) before packing it in to become a barrister, currently studying at the College of Law. He has also been a freelance script editor and journalist as well as working in the cutting rooms of the film industry.

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A cool gaze over 'Cold Mountain'

By failing to take in the real human dimensions of the American civil war, Minghella compromises the human story in “Cold Mountain”. This does not make for great romance, nor for great epic. It’s just an opportunity for artifice.