Unbearably painful to watch; a disgrace.

Rating: 5/10 (16 July 2001)

How do we measure the worth of a movie?
Do we take its technical brilliance into consideration? Or shall we value it because of its moral lesson? Maybe it is just its entertainment value?
And how shall we rate a tecnically perfect movie, which just happens to be the most racially offensive movie ever made?
Those are the questions I have right now in my mind. For I wasn't ready to watch this disgrace of a movie, and I still cannot fathom the anger and rage it caused. No, I am not an african american, nor a descendant of one. I am not an U.S. citizen, either. But it enrages me to watch it, for the sole reason that it is a display of racism and hatred for the masses.
If you watch this movie, not knowing anything about racial conflicts, you might end up thinking that black americans are faithful and obedient when servants, despotic and lawless when in command, and all the while with just enough intelligence to survive. In fact, the leading black players are actually white people in disguise. There are mentions of an "heroic" Ku Klux Klan, perpetually outnumbered by the hordes of african americans, and suffering from the worst of humilliations. The black slaves are noble beings, defending their white masters against the other black people. The black people in congress are simple minded, arrogant, badly dressed, with no manners or education whatsoever.
If you are beginning to equate this film with the Nazi propaganda machine of the 1930's, then this review won't be in vain.
Many people would like to believe that we should leave the past behind. That this film should be remembered by its artistic and technological brilliance, and not by the racial hatred it inspired. I say these people are the same that still proclaim the white (aryan, as it is known throughout the film -more Nazi references) race as superior, and that, deep within themselves, still hate and fear the black race.
And thus, we risk in repeating the past ourselves. It's a shame this film has a 7.4 grade. I am a believer in freedom of speech, but people should know better than praise this pathetic, racist piece of garbage.