Amistad Comments

  • Aletha 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Admirable audio-visual experience and a story full of humanitarian spirit, in "Broken Rage" adapted from real events, director Steven Spielberg gave the audience another moving discussion about the right of race to survive, from a certain In a way, it's like a slave version of Schindler's List. The strong cast and excellent performance, as well as the excellent grasp of the film's rhythm, are very...

  • Ambrose 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    The so-called prelude to the American Revolutionary War, the slave riots on the Amsda, and the subsequent court rescue operations in the United States, represent a challenge to the southern serfdom by the American northern judicial community. After reading it, you will understand that American independence The war is not a civil war that broke out simply to save the black people, it is a war about human freedom and the redemption of human nature. Linda's "I have a dream too" has a very long...

  • General 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    I was provoked, so I'm a little...

  • Ellen 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    The rhythm of the film is still good, I am very satisfied with the viewing experience, especially the performance of Anthony Hopkins, everyone is always everyone, every film performance is so united, Mobike! Another sigh is, how can there be so many human beings in this world who consider themselves to be civilized, but they can righteously think that other people are slaves and property? How distorted human nature was in those years! 9 points...

  • Eugenia 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    The image of the British is very positive. I wonder if any historians have studied why the British Empire was...

  • Adell 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    I didn't expect Spielberg to make this type of film, but everything he shoots is epic. Especially the plot at the end where the Queen of Spain continues to...

  • Libbie 2022-04-23 07:02:39

    The slave trade is the ugliest and filthiest page in human history, but at that time, quite a lot of people didn't think there was anything wrong with it. So what will happen to the human beings hundreds of years from now. What about us? The music in the film works well together, and it is suspected that the United States is boasting. Now, freedom is estimated to be their most powerful weapon, but after all, it was made by...

  • Richie 2022-04-23 07:02:39

    The slave trade, which existed from the beginning of the Arab Empire until the participation of Western European countries in modern times, is a kind of historical injustice. The abolition of the slave trade by common law in the United States and the United States followed a gradual process. The first was the abolition of slavery in England in the 18th century, as did New England in North America. The events described in the film are also the process of Anglo-American common law moving towards...

  • Trudie 2022-04-23 07:02:39

    After the black slaves rioted on the Spanish smuggling ship, they were intercepted by the US military and were judged by the US court. The interceptor, the original owner, the Queen of Spain, the President of the United States, Congressmen from the South, and the Abolitionists fought each other, and the former president personally defended and finally regained his freedom. There are many touching points, looking for translators all over the street, inhuman treatment of trafficking ships, Give...

  • Fidel 2022-04-23 07:02:39

    Spielberg has some sensationalism that I don't...

Extended Reading

Amistad quotes

  • Baldwin: [writing a letter to John Quincy Adams] To His Excellency John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts member, House of Representatives. I have understood from Mr. Joadson that you are acquainted with the plight of the Amistad Africans. If that is true, then you are aware that we have been at every step successful in our presentation of their case. Yet despite this and despite the unlikelihood of President Van Buren's re-election, he has appealed our most recent favorable decision to the highest court in the land. As I'm sure you are well aware, seven of nine of these Supreme Court justices are themselves Southern slave owners. Sir, we need you. If ever there was a time for a man to cast aside his daily trappings and array himself for battle, that time has come. Cicero once said, appealing to Claudius in defense of the Republic, that the whole result of this entire war depends on the life of one most brave and excellent man. In our time, in this instance, I believe it depends on two. A courageous man at present in irons in New Haven, named Cinque... and you sir. Sincerely Robert S. Baldwin, attorney-at-law.

  • John Quincy Adams: What is their story, by the way?

    Theodore Joadson: Sir?

    John Quincy Adams: What is their story?

    Theodore Joadson: Why, they're um... they're from west Africa.

    John Quincy Adams: No. What is their story?

    Theodore Joadson: [exhales and looks confused]

    John Quincy Adams: Mr. Joadson, you're from where originally?

    Theodore Joadson: Why, Georgia, sir.

    John Quincy Adams: Georgia.

    Theodore Joadson: Yes, sir.

    John Quincy Adams: Does that pretty much sum up what you are? A Georgian? Is that your story? No you're an ex-slave whose devoted his life to the abolition of slavery, and overcoming the obstacles and hardships along the way, I should imagine. That's your story, isn't it?

    Theodore Joadson: [smiles and nods]

    John Quincy Adams: [laughs] You and this young so-called lawyer have proven you know what they are. They're Africans. Congratulations. What you don't know, and as far as I can tell haven't bothered in the least to discover, is who they are. Right?

Amistad

Director: Steven Spielberg

Language: English,Mende,Spanish,Portuguese Release date: December 25, 1997