Victoria Spera
Film Essay
Movies are a great way to explain and understand history. In
America no one wants to create a film about slavery because nobody in America
really wants to talk about that, but in recent year there have been producing
more Civil War movies that have been sharing a historical light on the truth of
slavery. The movie Glory and 12 Years a Slave are wonderful movies that are
mostly historically accurate that represent the Civil War and slavery.
Glory is a
great movie. The main characters in this movie were real, such as Shaw. Other
character, some people in the regiment, are fictional characters. The movie
Glory is a wonderful movie to show in classroom environment. In Reelviews they
said this movie went to a big effort to get the details correct. They wanted it
to be as historically accurate as possible, the director got civil war
re-enactors to preform the battles, with the actors from the movie. Reelviews
highly praised this movie to make a great movie to discuss in the classroom
because the historical setting is mostly accurate. In the Ashbrook review on
Glory pointed out some of the inaccuracies. Ashbrook said that when attacking
Fort Wagener the filmmakers portrayed that the 54th regiment was
fighting north to south, when in fact they fought south to north. Even though there is a couple of inaccuracy in
the movie there is still accurate film and it really gives the viewers the
insight to what life was like back then for the first black regiment. I think
this would be a great movie to show the class because it show the start of a
“new” era because the 54th regiment was the first black regiment and
after them more black regiment started to pop up.
Another
movie that got praise from many critics and won many awards is 12 Years a Slave. This movie was based
on a book about a man named Soleman that got kidnapped and forced into slavery.
The movie is very brutal and shows us the actuality of slavery. American
Historical Association said it had more of a “hellish view” on slavery than
what happened in the book. Many other critics, reported to BBC Culture, they
liked the movie it’s was very historically accurate. The critics also say that 12 Years a Slave show the reality of
slavery to America. BBC article says “… British filmmaker Steve McQueen is
about to bring Americans what many view as the most realistic and bold
portrayal of slavery ever seen…” I think its good to see the “realistic” side
of slavery it opens up the American peoples’ eyes to what actually happened in are past. Even though what happened was awful. I think its important that Americans
are well aware on what really happened.
Many people
may have a problem with what both movies are rated. They are both rated “R”.
Sunsentinel tells us that some people don’t like their kids seeing an “R” rated
movie, but in my opinion it has to be rate “R” because it does show the reality
and violence of slavery.
I think these to movies would be a great way
help teach about the Civil War and slavery because it might be violent and
brutal both movies are mostly a historically accurate representation of either
life as a slave or how black were treated slave or not. Both movies were highly
praised and many critics that both movies would be a great way to help discussion
in the classroom or help teach and explain the times back the.
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