I cried during this entire movie, and that's all I have to say. And if you haven't seen it, please do.
I have seen it. And it is a beautiful movie. Did you just recently see it for the first time? Anyway, I remember when I first say it back in the late '90s. I was taking a government class in college. One afternoon, the professor asked how many people had seen the movie because he wanted to relate it's content to various policies going on during that time. I was a little bothered by the fact that I was basically the only one (maybe one other hand raised) who had seen it! I was really disappointed deep down because that class had a cultural mix of people who I thought were progressive. But over the last few years, it's occurred to me that non-black Americans really aren't interested in knowing about slave history or the plight of those black people thereafter. That's why I'm always happy to see movies like Amistad, which show a different perspective on the african slave trade in a very artful light. But as good as it was, I don't remember crying. :wink:
