Amistad

I am in the middle of watching  Amistad, a movie based on the true story that was released in theaters across the country in 1997. I was 34 years old, at the time. I remember both ENJOYING and APPRECIATING the film and Debbie Allen's drive and commitment in getting this story told. She ultimately SUCCEEDED in securing Steven Spielberg as the film's Director and Producer. Eighteen years later and with increased maturity, a different mindset, and aspirations of becoming Roger Sherman Baldwin's (Matthew McConaughey's character in the film) brand of LEGAL COUNSEL PERSONIFIED, I am finding this film to be ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING and one of the BEST FILMS ever produced in this country of this magnitude. The order in which the story is told, the script/dialogue, casting, setting...there is ONLY ONE THING that I DO NOT LIKE about this movie and that is the fact that it is a TRUE STORY that desperately NEEDED TO BE TOLD at all.

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

THIS is a film that should be visited or revisited as it reflects the very FABRIC OF BLACK HISTORY!

Amistad (1997) - IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/

Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny aboard the slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by a U.S. revenue cutter. The case was ultimately resolved by the United States Supreme Court in 1841.