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La Amistad es magnificente
by adambomber (movies profile)
Feb 5, 2006
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This was a great follow up for Spielberg to do after Schindler's List. The story is abosulutely unforgetable. This trial put the abolitionist movement in motion. America finally saw the hypocrisy behind the whole idea of slavery thanks to this trial. I mean, folks back then saw slaves not as humans, but as property, but when they go off and kill somebody taking them against their will from everything they love, then they're human beings and must be tried and punished as human beings. Spielberg once again uses drastic realism to portray the horrors that occured on board the slave ships. The acting is great but Anthony Hopkins steals the show as former president John Quincy Addams. The big speech he makes near the end of the movie is magnificent. Either John Q. Adams was a great speaker, or Anthony Hopkins is that good an actor, or maybe both. Anyway, this is an unforgetable story of a group of people fighting for a most basic right....freedom! |
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