The feature film "Revolution" (1985), directed by Hugh Hudson, portrays

the conflicts involved in the conquest of the independence of the thirteen

English colonies. Set in New York, in the northeastern region of the current
United States, the fighting is based on the influence of John Locke's
Enlightenment thought and his idea of a passive social contract to rebellion,
(right to civil disobedience when there is no guarantee of inalienable rights)
added to the discontent of English settlers with the growing collection of taxes
Despite the historical context, the plot is focused on the protagonist Tom Dobb
(AI Pacino), who enlists for the battlefield against his will in order to protect his
son, also summoned to fight against Great Britain.

Tom's speech that emphasizes that "that war was not his", present right
in the first minutes of the film, reiterates the primary positioning of the character,
who did not want to get involved in the conflict against Great Britain because he
did not feel belonging to its causes. However, with the unfolding of the plot,
there is a change in the interests of Dobb, whose motivation to fight ceases to
be only personal (the protection of his son) and becomes collective (in favor of
the independence of his country), an idea made explicit by him when stating: "I
am on the side of the Americans now".

The construction of this feeling on the part of the protagonist implies the
choice of the name of the film, since it fulfills one of the general characteristics
of a revolution: the motivation behind it. The title of the work becomes even
more appropriate if we relate it to the consequences of the American Revolution
itself, which broke with the colonial and mercantilist structure of the thirteen
English colonies, in addition to its impact in general, having been responsible
for the first conquest of independence of a colony in the Americas.

As previously presented, the film is faithful to the historical facts, an

aspect expressed, for example, in the representation of the "Congress" -
alluding to the
Second Continental Congress of Philadelphia (1775), in which the unanimous
declaration of the 13 United States of America was written by Thomas Jefferson
— and of the French support for the struggle for the independence of the
colonies (it is due to the historical retaliation of France with England after the
French defeat in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763)). This verisimilitude, along
with all the other elements addressed, explains the public's eagerness to know
more about the work, even after so many of its release.