Hypocritical American Law!

Rating: 8/10 (2 February 2020)

I don't mean that about the movie, its a very good film and deserves its rating. Its just that after all the history of Europeans invading America and the slave trade, they have the audacity to pat themselves on the back by celebrating in film, one thing they tried to get right in retrospect.
Its very well acted with an excellent cast, directed by Steven Spielberg superbly, its a bit of a film noir as many of the scenes are dark, but I suppose it represents the dark subject here, and it is a true story, unfortunately.
They argue (in the film) if the Africans are slaves or not, this after many many years of subjecting Africans to slavery, and building and enriching their nation on the back of slavery. This film is made because Americans eventually turned their back on slavery, so is a good representation of that.
But the fact that the European people of america seem to think they have jurisdiction over people of other nationalities in the first place is a bit sickening, as soon as it was discovered that they were indeed from Africa, that should of been the end of any court case, for them to be freed, apologised to and returned to Sierra Leone, and to try the owners of the ship. But they they wanted to drag it out in court for political motives, and make speeches about fairness and principles of Law,typical American Law Bullshit.
This true story film is to try to show they are just and fair, when in fact they are nothing of the sort, in real life America, first they raped and pillaged America from the American Indians, then they imported slaves from Africa to work the land for them. Ok they stopped slavery and belatedly tried to settle with what is left of the American Indian population, too little and far too late. And films like this are supposed to show that they are a fair and just people now !!! Trying to show that The American Way is great and how they are trying to fix the world, the world that they ruined in the first place! How condescending, and how contrite, do they think the rest of the world is stupid and does not know history ?
Just for an analogy, it is like me, going across the river to a neighbour, killing most of the family, let one or 2 live, kicking those left out to live in the woods while I burn their house down and build a new one on the land, crossing over another river abducting another family to work on the grounds, then many generations later, my great great great grandson inviting the descendants of the original family to come back and live in the shed, then letting a few of the second family to return home free, then making a story up to tell any friends we think we have, about how great we were by letting them go free !!! How ridiculous.
If they want fairness, they should send all the African Americans back to Africa, with all the value they have and give them back their property and livelihoods in Africa, all the whites go back to Europe and give all the land in North America back to the Indian tribes to let them repopulate it. Of course this will never happen, the whites have already ruined the continent and it will never go back to how it should, but the good thing is we don't have to take items such as this to understand what is right and wrong. I am White British, my country is just as guilty in the same respects, as are several countries, I can't change the past, but I can be impartial and retrospective and tell it how it is/was.
Back off the soapbox now, and back to the film, I gave it 8 stars because of how well it was made, and how well it was acted. If I judged it on political motives, it would get a minus 100