I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.