Amistad Movie Reflection

Have you ever watched a movie that was like a roller coaster of thrills and drama? At every twist and turn you came across and you foreshadowed how it would outcome, but only to be completely wrong. You think you seen the worse, but then you see something more gruesome. You may think you know how the movie will turn out, but do you really? Everyone also says there a happy ending in every movie, but is there really such a thing that exist. The historical film Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg captures all of these through a camera. He does an astonishing job at capturing all of these things is the film that is thrilling, cruel, drama, but also full of hope. It is without a doubt a classic film that went down in history with over forty-four …show more content…
It was a thrilling drama with life changing for me. I felt the pain of the Africans in this movie. If this was the movie The Wizard of Oz, then the Africans would be Dorothy and they would simply only want to go home. I could feel the emotion from the actors. Whenever I watch movie, I always try to imagine myself as one of the characters to better understand it. I place myself in the situation to better relate, and while doing that while watching this film, it made me feel grateful. I am very grateful for the life I am able to live because of the strong black people that scarified their freedom for us to have a …show more content…
The movie deals with slavery and the mistreatment of them. After watching the movie I learned something new. I knew that slaves dealt with a lot of torture, but somethings on the movie painted such a more vivid outlook on it. In one scene of the movie, the white sailors put heavy rocks in a net. At first I just assumed it was to act as an anchor. I was in away right, but I had no idea that they would tie slaves to it to drown them. It was so unbelievable to see them murder someone so easily like that. I had always assumed that every African was enslaved and wasn’t murdered until their slave owner killed them. Little did I know that some of them didn’t even live long enough to make it to America? I had always assumed many died from sickness, and things of that nature. That scene definitely opened my eyes, and just provided a great example of the agony that come with being African America. We can talk on and on about slavery in class but that’s just talking. I believe the class needed a visually to fully understand, and that is what that movie gave