Amistad
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Movie Reviews of Amistad
Movie Review: Passages
Summary: 5 Stars
Needed & necessary. God bless Spielberg for rescuing a footnote moment of our history, unknown or forgotten by most of us, and for illuminating the present with a piece of our past. The weaknesses of Amistad (Morgan Freeman, in every Freeman film I've seen, is forever playing a cameo of Morgan Freeman) hardly detract or distract from the Middle Passage. The Horse Latitudes scene in which the slavers' load is lightened is astonishing and almost beyond imagining. The magic of Amistad is that Spielberg lets us imagine and almost experience that moment.Movie Review: good, but stirring
Summary: 5 Stars
I find this film to be accurate in many ways except one, the Morgan Freeman character. I think it lacks a little aunthenticity. There were not that many free blacks in his day, especially with any kind of wealth. The film does tell a very important aspect of American history, that is often overlooked which is that the northeastern United States was not an area of predominant slave ownership, people there did harbor still some of the same prejudices existant in the south.Movie Review: Invoke your ancesters when in trouble
Summary: 5 Stars
I could not watch it over and over the intelligence and the loyalty as well as the discipline is to be admired. I am told it is not a true story though. I do believe that we need to learn a lot from the way they were dressed going back home. Africans of the past were very modest people they did not show their skin in public. The story needs to be redone with better and truer facts. Africans were the founders of civilizations dress is important to civil behavior.Movie Review: Excellent DVD Transfer
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched Amistad last night on DVD. I've seen it twice before. I had to run out and buy the DVD the day it came out. The video is sharp and crisp (Also Anamorphic). I only have a Pro Logic system but the sound was great also. The DVD has a seamless layer change. (Unless I blinked). This is a touching story. It Always makes me misty when Cinque gives Morgan Freeman the (tooth) gift that his wife gave him before he was stolen.Movie Review: Well meaning historical drama
Summary: 5 Stars
The wills of an 11-year-old girl (Isabella 2 of Spain) battled the US Congress while the British emancipated captured slaves near Africa. Based on one of the earliest international court battles after the British Empire ended slavery whilst the Americans and Spanish were still working it out. Simplified but it may inspire some to read up on the deeper historical facts of the case.