Amazing, with compassion.

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2011)

I love historical movies, even if they are not entirely accurate. The time period, costumes and furniture are interesting to me, besides the story. The actors in this movie made extreme effort to capture the essence of this story. This movie expressed compassion and deep thoughtfulness. The movie shows interest not only in government strategies', (similar to now) but soul searching as well. The most interesting situation to me was communication between people of different language along with the slaves fear driven defensive attitude. But, respect for the slaves, investigating where they were from and finding an interpreter, finally helps their cause. Besides all we have known or learned, this movie shows just how horrible, inconceivable and sickening slavery really is. What I took from this movie; most people are the same all over the world. If we could all just respect each other. I wish history were taught through film in school I think the information would have been instilled with much better impact.