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I loved this movie. I don't usually write reviews, I just read them,but when I read that some of the reviewers called the movie boring, I had to write. If your looking for sex and violance, this movie won't be for you,but if your looking for someone who made a diffferance in history as well as man kind. This movie is defanatly one you should watch. I found it very heart moving and inspirational.
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The historical account of the people and events is more than entertaining and interesting while being factual and true, what you would think is an impossibility.
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This movie is sad and happy. I feel that every family should see this movie. I'm been thing what would be if William Wilberforce was still here on Earth, What would the world look like now with William Wilberforce. There is also a Bible study guide on the DVD. Can't wait until I can watch it again. It is too much to take in after seeing the whole movie.
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Watch it any time you need to be reminded to fight for what is right!
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Sucking stale, coal-stained air in the shadows of the dawn of the Industrial Age can have its drawbacks. Just ask Wm. Wilberforce and his sickly young compadre. Both young chaps were seen coughin' up blood and chunks of lung upon their fluffy sickbeds over the course of this finely fluffed little walk-thru concerning the unspeakable horrors of the slave trade. (Some would justify the exclusion of any actual slaves by claiming that this movie is not intended to be about slavery at all, but rather a biography of Wilberforce! But then, why is his story remarkable, if not for his battle against the status quo over that very issue?!) Too bad we weren't treated to a view of how the other half lived during the period, "Hard Times," or "Oliver Twist" style. (Those are books I'm referring to 4ur411.)
Here's an idea Mr. Apted; show a few slaves! Fer fuksake, man! Show 'em wallowin' in their own feces! Suffocating in their own defecation! Damn you punch-pullin' weaktit! You'd rather skim jauntily over the surface of the scum like a good, wholesome housewife donating a few shekels a day to sponsor third-world children who have starved to death or succombed to dysentary while their names remain on the books so that certain "Disney reality," "Happily-Ever-After" fantasies can remain intact.
Yeah, I know, I should be grateful that some strong-principled, courageous, upper-crust "liberal" would take it upon himself to expose the crimes of idiocy and greed performed by his fore-father's ilk in days of yore. But alas! This promising epic treats the real-world humanity of the issue as merely a trivial side point. The suffering of a multitude of poor souls be damned! It is the inner anguish of good Wilberforce that we are to keenly observe here. A few garrish demonstrations of slave chains and carefully censored depictions of the ships themselves leave us with the realization that this is more of the old "theatrical glorification," and "historical masturbation."
But, as a man of extensive insight and experience, Mr.Apted understands that his target audience (flippant, upper-crust, "educated," Duty-honor-country types) would have no desire (as their fore-fathers had no desire) to really view, full-in-the-face, the monstrosities they have created to prosper from.
There are arm-chair quarterbacks on both sides of the fence, to borrow a couple of worn metaphors. Rest assured that William Wilburforce (the flesh and blood, non-fictionalized version) would have ground your pasty mugs into the filth of a slaveship's holding deck. He would have shown you the grizzly realities left in the wake of your plans for prosperity. He was consumed by that most unfortunate blight on personal happiness, Empathy. Burning empathy that'll leave you wasted and sick if you let it.
But what of the other sights and sounds of London Towne, Mr. Apted? Ahh, but frilly romance is a far more luring tale, is it not? Shall we dedicate extensive scenes to giddy, lavish depictions of aristocratic courtship? And why not? is it not love which must fuel the fires of change? The constant Sir Francis Beacon quoting. Throw in a little Shakespeare, oh, I nearly forgot, they were two in the same. Yes, that, my friends, is quite an irrefutable truth, when one is confronted with the cicumstanstial evidence.
But I digress. I, for one, would've felt less cheated had I been shown the real horrors of Dickensonian London in all its wretched glory. How the working class lived during the period, for instance. How the great and beastly empire of Great Britain was built by the diseased, broken backs of the Cockneys, blacks and Jews of the East End, their life blood greasing the gears of the Great Machine. How the aristocratic class, as it has, and always will, sustained its life of lavish comfort and ease through the parasitic exploitation of the poor, ignorant working class. Ah, yes. The beauty of truthful history. But I will give the filmmakers credit for doing what they could on the issue, after all, people like me aren't financed to make films, so we gotta settle for what we get.
And don't think I missed the sly Illuminati "duece-duece" the one old crusty offered up to Wilberforce at the end when the proposition to end slavery finally swept through on a landslide. Are you guillible enough to believe that profiteering scum would suddenly have a mystifying change of heart after years of steadfast opposition to such a proposal? Naw, such things are no more possible in their day than in ours. Do you think that our government would suddenly decide that the butchering and virtual enslavement of the Iraqi people should be abolished unless they were so commanded by their overlords? They will continue with their business until it becomes more profitable to their ambitions to conduct it differently. How much good has the demonstration and outcry of the people, or the good, honest few, ever done to avert calamitous ways or suppress tyranny? Not much. Certainly no lasting change has ever been effected by it. Those behind the shroud will always bend the rules to fit societal acceptability, but the game will remain the same. In the U.S., slaves became sharecroppers who, when driven from that unjust means of survival, swarmed to the cities where they now congregate in the hopeless despair of the ghetto. Pray tell Master Apted, what fate lay in wait for the "free" black man in England after his physical chains were abolished?
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