D Jango Movie Analysis

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I’ve seen many slave movies, or movies that depict slaves. Movies that have shown how slaves separated from their loved ones, I believe D’Jango unchained as one of the most recent ones, but none of the movies I have seen show as much brutal honesty as 12 years a Slave did. It shows how slavery in itself is, and also how it affects the lives of those who profit from it. I’ve learned about all the things slaves went through but nothing compares as a visualization, it puts everything into a new perspective. You are able to see their pain, their suffering and it wraps you into their world. The only other honest visualization I have seen about slavery was the telenovela Xica da Silva, though I saw this with my mom when I was a child, things in this movie reminded me of that telenovela. This period of time was very backwards, people preached about religion and how one must be humble and accept god and the lord’s ways yet they saw themselves better than other humans. In some instances they took no regards for them and didn’t consider them human. When Solomon first was kidnapped you saw a very trusting free man who was just going to go earn some money in his profession, as a professional violinist. His kidnappers pretended …show more content…

You see a beautiful, elegant house filled with naked people who are being inspected, and evaluated like cattle. To the point where they inspect their teeth to show how healthy they are. Honestly, it was barbaric to imagine how this was allowed and seen as the norm back then. Families, such as Eliza’s and her children were separated with no emotion, honestly treated as a set of furniture that two different people bought. We also got some insight on what happens to young and pretty girls, when Mr. Ford wanted to buy Eliza’s daughter, Emily, the auctioneer refused to sell her. Stating that she is a beauty and much money is to be made from her, implying the girl would be a child sex

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