Amistad (1997)

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at May 20 22:57

"Give us the courage to do what is right. And if it means civil war? Then let it come. And when it does, may it be, finally, the last battle of the American Revolution." Amistad is straightforwardly one of Steven Spielberg's greatest motion pictures: an uncompromising, violent history lesson that does not succumb to telling a story of one of the tiring traditional historical events such as the American Civil War, the holocaust, etc. As an alternative to these aforementioned events that have been endlessly told in Hollywood productions, Spielberg tackles a poignant and imperative true story pertaining to the abolition of slavery that had yet to be explored on film. Set in 1839, a Spanish slave trading vessel known as 'La Amistad' is transporting African prisoners with the intention o...Read more

Rating : 8/10