Gosh

Rating: 2/10 (5 February 2006)

OK, it's racist, we all know that. It's so exaggerated that is pathetic, and often it elicits more laughter than contempt for its so out-of-date point of view.
But in my opinion it's also pure, cheap, obvious melodrama, so trivial that I felt irritated at many scenes (as others commentators here, I saw it in a film class).
I have the impression that "Birth of a Nation" is still largely overrated, for people don't want to be labeled "ideological" in condemning this early soap opera.
I'm afraid that even in narratology, Griffith gave the bad example.