Like I said: it's great to see a PG movie that is not aimed at 10 year-olds. The movie was inspiring, touching, and surprisingly not filled with opinions from either wing.
The movie doesn't need to be violent to touch the audience's hearts, after all we have been taught about slavery and how terrible and brutal it really was. This point doesn't need to be driven home in this particular movie like Schindler's List did for the Holocaust. Descriptions are powerful enough in this film, and we are left to only hear about the terrible tragedies just as the naive and sheltered British parliament were forced to do.
But the story isn't necessarily about the issue of slavery. It's about perseverance and faith. Yeah, that's right, I said faith. There's a well done movie that incorporates faith in a very realistic and admirable way.
I didn't want to see the movie. I just tagged along. I didn't care to see another touching Hollywood movie meant to make me ask myself what's wrong with the world, but when it was over, I was touched. I was impressed. And I was entertained. Not bad.
The movie doesn't need to be violent to touch the audience's hearts, after all we have been taught about slavery and how terrible and brutal it really was. This point doesn't need to be driven home in this particular movie like Schindler's List did for the Holocaust. Descriptions are powerful enough in this film, and we are left to only hear about the terrible tragedies just as the naive and sheltered British parliament were forced to do.
But the story isn't necessarily about the issue of slavery. It's about perseverance and faith. Yeah, that's right, I said faith. There's a well done movie that incorporates faith in a very realistic and admirable way.
I didn't want to see the movie. I just tagged along. I didn't care to see another touching Hollywood movie meant to make me ask myself what's wrong with the world, but when it was over, I was touched. I was impressed. And I was entertained. Not bad.