Finally watched it, what a great movie and an amazing story. Doesn't blink when taken a look at a shameful part of our history. Deserved all the Oscars it got IMO.
OT: 12 Years a Slave
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It's a great movie with an unflinching look at a shameful institution. It was difficult to watch at times, but worth the time.
Definitely a great movie. We, as humans, have a great capacity for evil...and a great capacity for love and kindness. It's good to be reminded of the evils our forefathers have wrought so that we do not forget to focus on love and kindness in our daily walk.
I didn't watch it. Just more profiting from white guilt. My "forefathers" weren't even here yet.
These race related movies try to exist in a historical vacuum where the US is the only country to have ever owned slaves or committed atrocities against humanity. Perhaps it's irony that the director of this movie is a Brit that has plenty of his own history to dwell on and atone for, or to make others feel guilty over considering he's black. I look forward to his apartheid film.
These race related movies try to exist in a historical vacuum where the US is the only country to have ever owned slaves or committed atrocities against humanity. Perhaps it's irony that the director of this movie is a Brit that has plenty of his own history to dwell on and atone for, or to make others feel guilty over considering he's black. I look forward to his apartheid film.
Im going to give you credit for histrical ignorance, WPS88, rather than assume you are just stupid and racist. Slavery was, is and always will be shameful, and it wouldnt matter if "everyone else was doing it", which they were not. By the time we had a our civil war it was a dying institution and as you may recall was a fairly devisive issue here in the US, i.e. the war that killed 100s of thousands.
Slavery may have been on a down turn world wide but in the US it was growing and as long as cotton was being grown slavery was going nowhere in the south.
WTF?
Whoever said that the US was solely responsible for slavery? Regardless, does that make it acceptable in your eyes? At some point we have to accept and move on from the fact that slavery existed in the US. It doesn't mean we have to ignore it.
You're not sure how dehumanizing others is shameful, regardless of context? I'd love to beat the shit out of you on general principle. And be more righteous a thousand fold than a slave owner.
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Note that I used the word atrocities. Does that sound like I approve?
And youre right, we have to move on.
,More than once, Sir Winston Churchill used the old quote "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
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They said: "you can smell a slave ship coming before you see it" understandable, since no heads(bathrooms) for 500 humans or so packed in - unable to move around much or not at all.
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Gallery Index: Images of African Slavery and the Slave TradePlans of Slave Decks, Slave Ship BrookesImages of African Slavery and the Slave Trade
They said: "you can smell a slave ship coming before you see it" understandable, since no heads(bathrooms) for 500 humans or so packed in - unable to move around much or not at all.
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Sometimes I forget people like these people in the thread exist. Always a jolt to the system
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I don't think it's anti U.S. at all. I think it's just a interesting film about one man's story of being born free then kidnapped and sold into slavery in our nation's capitol. Interesting cause I didn't realize it was legal in DC at that point. And the film also pointed out that the first slave owner was a decent man under the circumstances so I'm not buying the white guilt even though I could see how one could be affected. Anyone with any historical intelligence knows Africans were enslaved by Africans and slavery has been common practice since the beginning of man. It's honestly just a good movie.
Minnesotahog , well stated. I have not watched the film because of the way it was sold to the public by the liberal self serving media. It is probably a really good film that half of America will never watch because we are sick of being blamed for something we never had anything to do with.
Also well stated. I totally agree with your assessment. There will always be a liberal agenda associated with a movie that has "slave" in the title. I can assure you that it's a well put together movie and well worth seeing. To me, It doesn't generalize white people as being "bad."
I have heard mixed views on it. I personally will never watch it, but that is my choice.
I moved here in 2002 and am the only one from all of my ancestors. Most remain in Ireland/Germany/Scottland and most recently Australia. So not I nor anyone of my relatives (ancestors) had a single god damn thing to do with any of it. Yet every day I get punished over here as if I/we did. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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