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I STILL haven't seen Amistad. Uh uh.
I think I cried for 3/4 of that. So there's a slave ship, right? Well, at some point in the story, some slaves try to escape off the ship during the transit, and their escape plan? Swim east. I broke down there and never unbroke up.
Having just watched Amistad for my Spielberg blog series, don't worry, le nubian, you are not missing anything. it is really not a good movie. While it doesn't reach Hook levels of awfulness, it's one of Spielberg's worst.
Some movies don't have to be good to have a deep emotional impact. I'm going to guess that LeN should avoid Amistad on that criterion primarily.
Look, I haven't seen Schindler's List either. There are some movies on this score that I just have to avoid. I have a category of movies in that vein that I do not see at all.
I would watch documentaries, mind you. But dramatized in movies, I just can't.
I really avoid all of WWII. I have also not seen Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan or any of the Clint Eastwood stuff or Band of Brothers.
Schindler's List is the only one I'm not sure I could watch again.
In general, I'm allergic to the default war movie, just like I can't handle most Middle Passage narratives. But I have a long-seated compulsion to consume slavery stories, implanted by my parents. For war, I restrict myself to Britain during WWII and select POW pieces (which I love to pieces, and some I know I can't handle--I haven't seen Schindler's List either).
I don't see how I can't see that movie, but the premise is making me weepy right now. If only it starred a Wayans brother.
I have avoided Amistad for the reasons le n states. It's not just the emotional well they draw from, I end up really resenting a movie that draws from those wells without giving me any more insight than I had going into it.
I will trade Djimon for insight 8 times out of ten.
I watch the Janet Jackson video for that tho.