The flash forwards

The Davis Knight story was a bit jarring, but it was an important element in the Knight family history and how the story of Newt Knight was still unfolding well into the twentieth century.

Davis Knight was the great-grandson of Knight and Serena as well as a great grandson of Rachel and a different man.

Descendants of Knight, Serena and Rachel were shunned in Mississippi for several generations after the Civil War and many moved north to escape the discrimination, including the all white descendants.

Davis Knight's life was tragic. He never went to prison, but his wife left him for another man and he moved to Texas where he married a second time. He died in 1959 in a boating accident. He never had children.

The flash forward scenes werent in themselves great, but they were important in the context of the film about mans struggle against oppression and how that continued even years after the civil war ended

I wasn't the biggest fan, but if they were true to the family's history, it is important.

I thought they were relevant from the statement he made about affecting their children, their children's children etc. It showed how true hat statement was as it his actions were still affecting his children's children's children's.

Not really but the first flash forward came out of nowhere, I wasn’t expecting that at all and it took me out of the movie a little.

If the movie had begun in the 20th Century with a better explanation of what was going on in the courtroom and then focused on the Civil War and main story of the film, I’d of enjoyed it more, although it was a very good movie but with better editing and pacing it could have been better.

As edited I don't think they added anything to the story either. They could have been used as bookends to the main story, or the info added via text in an epilogue.