With the enthusiastic reception at the Sundance film festival, Nate Parker’s, “The Birth of a Nation,” is poised to be the next big thing in indie films this year.
It’s the story of the Nat Turner slave revolt in 1831, and it’s chock full of graphic scenes of slaves being beaten and mistreated by owners.
The gratuitous abuse of slaves and its bloody violence has me wondering if this will be the creation of a new genre of movie, one to join the likes of musicals, westerns, comedies and slashers.
But what do you call the type of film that digs through the history of the Antebellum South for stories of slave torture, recreating in gruesome detail the worst cruelties, sure to inspire some movie patrons their justification of racial hatred and strife towards their fellow citizens?
Slave torture porn?
“The brutality of “The Birth of a Nation” can be enough to make viewers turn away..”
Another Review
“Heads are crushed, stoved in and chopped off. Bodies are burned, teeth are broken. It’s a cathartic blood-letting that recalls the huff and puff of Braveheart, but instead of Mel Gibson splattering the English, it’s Parker hacking at the slave owners.”
I GOT DIBS ON
“Hands Up! I’z Uh Viktum!” t-shirts!
“Forget the past, lose an eye, dwell on the past, and lose both eyes.” – Russian proverb
Grrrrrrr!
I call it “Liberation Theology Propaganda”.
Something else to cause unnecessary hatred – Talk about horrible things that a relatively small number of people did around 200 years ago.
But they won’t talk about the moslems actually doing those things all over the world, every day, RIGHT NOW!
http://aattp.org/african-american-pundit-slave-owners-were-liberal-democrats-video/
They’ll stoop to any level.
Look at all the blacks. It looks like most commercials on tv.
Isn’t it racist to choose someone based on race or skin color?
I prefer
Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
This is just preying on ignorance.
Do they show the black slave owners abusing the slaves?
Will there every be a movie about white slaves (that existed in numbers far greater than black slaves), and how that led to the high proportion of blond people on the west coast?
They’ll want to do a remake of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” next, only they’ll have to take the “Uncle Tom” out of the title somehow.
They’ll call it “Simon Lagree” and have one of the other slaves who’s a minor character smash the slave driver in the head with a shovel and lead the slave revolt.
Or the Indian tribes.
The goal here of course is to provoke some stupid blacks into murdering real white people in reaction to the film.
….of course the Turner Rebellion led to an even greater suppression & punishment of blacks by Democrats
but let’s not dwell on that….
Whites bad…..blacks good.
Progressive talking point 3,456
I think the main genre is “blacksploitation”, the style is “film
noirnègre”, and the sub-genre is “mutilate da massa”.That was actually better than I thought it would be.
history lesson …. the Turner Rebellion killed about 55+ white people. the revolt was put down in about 2 days. about 56 blacks were hanged & another 100+ were killed by retaliation. approximately 30 years later 3/4’s of a million white people were killed to give the blacks their freedom, including people from my family that fought on the side of the freedom-givers.
Where are my fucking REPARATIONS???? … you racist sumbitches
The number to keep in mind is 1.6%. That’s the percentage of Americans who owned slaves at the height of slavery in the 1850’s.
Still, NONE of the Africans forced to live in America have tried to escape back to Africa have they? I wonder why…
whatever you decide to call it, please give everyone in it an Oscar for gods sake!
Yeah, because it makes so make sense to treat livestock this way. SMH
” to give the blacks their freedom”
And the brainwash is complete
Judging by the comments here and elsewhere (haven’t seen the movie and don’t plan to), I’d say that D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film of the same title is more revealing, educational and enjoyable.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/?ref_=nv_sr_2
The naval gazing of modern black made movies is boring to the extreme.