Film Review: Amistad
1.) The film start by displaying an African man on a ship in the middle of a storm in the ocean. During this time, the African man is very freight, and he is picking through the wooden ship floor. As he is doing this, he manages to get nail pulled out from the wooden floor and he uses it to unchain himself and others and they all get wooden paddles, axes, machetes, swords and whatever they can find to try and take over the ship. They manage to kill several white sailors aboard the ship called the Amistad. From this scene, one can begin to understand that after a certain time and after the American people who were treated very harshly, they began to become anger and where willing to do everything in order to escape from …show more content…
But as they try to persuade him, Adams refused to help them and Joadson steps in and makes this remark that there was still on task to be done that was left behind by the Founding Father and that was to abolish slavery. This is very important because as a new nation the United States was divided by the issue of slavery. The southern people were in favor of slavery and the northern people opposed slavery. As the issue of slavery continued to expand, the greater the south and the north grew apart and would eventually lead to the civil war. But another question that the film ask, is whether or not slave are materialistic property or if they humans why not treat them as such. This question is very important because in today’s society some people tend to forget or ignore that we are all humans no matter your race, religion, or even your color of skin. And therefore, we all should be treated with the same …show more content…
After that moment, he gained the respect from his village and was considered a prince. He explains that the people gave him gratitude and respect and at some point he felt unworthy of it. He also makes this state that everyone would have done the same if they were put into that situation. Baldwin then shows him something he found on the ship and it remined him of his wife. He then begins to explain how he got to where he was now. He starts by saying that his wife had given him that tooth and had told him it would protect him. Soon after he was captured by another group of African people and along with other captures. Then they were forced to be chained together and where were taken into a ship which the African men who had capture the African slave trade with European nation in return for good and weapons. As they were boarded on the ship were they were beaten very harshly, some were even shot as they entered the ship. They were forced without clothing, chained from head to toe. Some women were even pregnant and they were forced to have them on the ships which was very tightly crowed. Another thing that African women slaves had to encounter was that they were forced and raped sexually, even when the women had children the only way out of the hell that they were forced to live under the only escape to throw themselves and their children overboard. This scene
1.) The film start by displaying an African man on a ship in the middle of a storm in the ocean. During this time, the African man is very freight, and he is picking through the wooden ship floor. As he is doing this, he manages to get nail pulled out from the wooden floor and he uses it to unchain himself and others and they all get wooden paddles, axes, machetes, swords and whatever they can find to try and take over the ship. They manage to kill several white sailors aboard the ship called the Amistad. From this scene, one can begin to understand that after a certain time and after the American people who were treated very harshly, they began to become anger and where willing to do everything in order to escape from …show more content…
But as they try to persuade him, Adams refused to help them and Joadson steps in and makes this remark that there was still on task to be done that was left behind by the Founding Father and that was to abolish slavery. This is very important because as a new nation the United States was divided by the issue of slavery. The southern people were in favor of slavery and the northern people opposed slavery. As the issue of slavery continued to expand, the greater the south and the north grew apart and would eventually lead to the civil war. But another question that the film ask, is whether or not slave are materialistic property or if they humans why not treat them as such. This question is very important because in today’s society some people tend to forget or ignore that we are all humans no matter your race, religion, or even your color of skin. And therefore, we all should be treated with the same …show more content…
After that moment, he gained the respect from his village and was considered a prince. He explains that the people gave him gratitude and respect and at some point he felt unworthy of it. He also makes this state that everyone would have done the same if they were put into that situation. Baldwin then shows him something he found on the ship and it remined him of his wife. He then begins to explain how he got to where he was now. He starts by saying that his wife had given him that tooth and had told him it would protect him. Soon after he was captured by another group of African people and along with other captures. Then they were forced to be chained together and where were taken into a ship which the African men who had capture the African slave trade with European nation in return for good and weapons. As they were boarded on the ship were they were beaten very harshly, some were even shot as they entered the ship. They were forced without clothing, chained from head to toe. Some women were even pregnant and they were forced to have them on the ships which was very tightly crowed. Another thing that African women slaves had to encounter was that they were forced and raped sexually, even when the women had children the only way out of the hell that they were forced to live under the only escape to throw themselves and their children overboard. This scene