reviews for Birth Of A Nation

[Ol’Otis]

‘The Birth of a Nation’ Is an Epic Fail


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/10/07/o...ane/index.html

"Birth of a Nation" transformed Nat Turner into a reactionary, angry slave out to avenge his wife's rape. That would be akin to a film about Rosa Parks claiming she refused to sit in the back of the bus because of a sexual assault. The rape plot device was unnecessary, awkward, uncomfortable and poorly executed. By inserting it, "Birth of a Nation" tainted the sacred history of one of the greatest figures in black history.

Nate Parker as Nat Turner crumbled in a one-note performance. Similar to his previous roles in "Red Tails," "The Great Debaters" and "Beyond the Lights," he played Turner stoically and stiffly. Keep in mind, for the majority of his career, Parker has portrayed "pretty-perfect," so-called "positive" characters, and he's talked in detail about the importance of playing characters to "preserve the black man."

In "Birth of a Nation," Parker was obsessed with his own respectability politics. By turning Turner into an upstanding family man, sadly, he sanitized the icon. He made Turner fight for a cause we could all respect, but he did so at the expense of historical precision."







: http://nypost.com/2016/10/06/why-i-r...-a-nation/amp/

"Count me the hell out.

It’s not just Parker I can’t stomach. I haven’t seen a Woody Allen film since 2012’s “To Rome With Love.” Roman Polanski has been off my list for many years. After a video came out this summer showing a drunk Johnny Depp hurling verbal abuse at then-wife Amber Heard, I doubt I’ll see his next movie, either.

We live in a culture where rapists and abusers routinely get away with their crimes, or do next to no time. We don’t need to actively reward men who prey on women — and take no responsibility for it — by giving them lucrative Hollywood gigs. So I’ll wait for another take on the Nat Turner story. Who knows, maybe it’ll come from a female director next time."

 

[MikelArteta]

I'm sick of slave movies even if cacs are being killed

 

[Ol’Otis]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp...rs-hold-935803

"In front of the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood Thursday night, a small group of protesters gathered for a silent candlelight sit-in at the first screenings of Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation.

The protest was organized by the group F**k Rape Culture — made up of artists, filmmakers and women in Hollywood — and began at 7 p.m., when the historical drama is scheduled to first hit theaters in previews. Around 30 to 40 people joined in the protest, planning to quietly sit for around two hours, about the length of the film. The group, honoring victims of rape and sexual assault, was mostly women, but a few men also joined in, and some of the protesters brought their dogs with them."



"Consider, for example, the film’s troubling depictions of black women. A crucial turning point in the movie occurs when Turner’s wife, Cherry, is brutally gang raped by a group of slave patrollers—an attack the film portrays as the spark that ultimately drove Turner to launch his rebellion. But there is not a shred of historical evidence to suggest that Cherry was ever raped by slave patrollers, nor is there any evidence to indicate that an attack on his wife inspired Turner to rebel. By all accounts, Turner took up arms against slavery because he believed slavery was morally wrong and violated the law of God. In the months prior to the rebellion, he reported receiving a series of visions and messages from God predicting a cataclysmic “race war” that would destroy slavery, and by early 1831, Turner believed that God had selected him as the person to lead the revolt. According to the historical record, these were the only inspirations for Turner’s rebellion. This fact is important because it demonstrates that black people not only fought against slavery because of its extreme violence and brutality, but also because they knew in their hearts that slavery was an unjust, exploitative system that violated moral laws. In other words, they fought simply because they wanted to be free."

 

[Ol’Otis]

his career is finished after this

 

[Rayzah]

Man fukk the person who wrote this article and everyone acting like he assaulted this woman or is a serial rapist or act like he wasn't found not guilty. His intent wasn't to rape or harm that woman.

It was just young kids being young kids people especially kids don't know what they are doing let's stop holding people to these unrealistic standards

 

[BaggerofTea]

This nikka should have killed off everyone involved with the case and should have put bounties on these reporters putting in work on his name currently

Could have had them bodied up and none of this controversy would have existed.

 

[GoldTeef]

Birth of a Nation" transformed Nat Turner into a reactionary, angry slave out to avenge his wife's rape.

he doesn't do it to avenge his wife's rape though

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Movie is relevant. We are still slaves trying to break free from Babylon

 

[Ol’Otis]

Like the film’s other fabrications about black women, the rape story line is carefully constructed to redeem black masculinity at black women’s expense. According to The Birth of a Nation, all of the women in Turner’s life were passive victims in desperate need of black male protection. This fabrication flies in the face of historical fact. There is overwhelming evidence that Turner’s mother fought valiantly against slavery, even attempting to commit infanticide when Nat was born to prevent him from being enslaved. Yet Parker and Celestin depicted her as a meek, mild victim who resigned herself to slavery. Cherry and her daughter are also portrayed as helpless victims who suffer unspeakable horrors until Turner rides in on his horse and vows to seek vengeance on their behalf. The only other major black female character in the film, who is brilliantly played by actress Gabrielle Union, does not speak a single word during the entire movie. She literally has no voice, and like all of the other black women in the film, she has no agency. Instead, like Cherry, she is a victim of a horrifying rape, which must be avenged by the black male heroes in her life.



from TheNation.com

 

[King Poetic]

We live in a culture where rapists and abusers routinely get away with their crimes, or do next to no time. We don’t need to actively reward men who prey on women — and take no responsibility for it — by giving them lucrative Hollywood gigs. So I’ll wait for another take on the Nat Turner story. Who knows, maybe it’ll come from a female director next time."

nate was found not guilty in court WITH A ALL WHITE JURY EXCEPT ONE being black.........

polanski skip the country, depp records has been proven and of course woody as well.... don't lump nate into the same category

now to the film, like i said i don't think the film will do good in the box office, but at least he got paid for the film and i want to thank tony parker of the spurs and michael finley for being the first investors to the film

 

[Marc Spector]

Goddammit why'd he insert the "rape was the LAST STRAW" motivation.

Turner insisting on revolution due to his own conclusions is so much better. Even more ironic is the same god that the slave owners beat into him to worship was the same inspiration for Nat's revolution.

How IS THAT not a better narrative than "man it took my wife rape to inform on me that slavery is really bad you guys"

will still see movie

 

[ezrathegreat]

As a black man with a white wife he should have stayed out of pro-black affairs and movies. He put himself in a lose-lose situation. Regardless of if this movie bombs, he still got 17 million for it so he in the end, won

 

[Ol’Otis]

We live in a culture where rapists and abusers routinely get away with their crimes, or do next to no time. We don’t need to actively reward men who prey on women — and take no responsibility for it — by giving them lucrative Hollywood gigs. So I’ll wait for another take on the Nat Turner story. Who knows, maybe it’ll come from a female director next time."

nate was found not guilty in court WITH A ALL WHITE JURY EXCEPT ONE being black.........

polanski skip the country, depp records has been proven and of course woody as well.... don't lump nate into the same category

now to the film, like i said i don't think the film will do good in the box office, but at least he got paid for the film and i want to thank tony parker of the spurs and michael finley for being the first investors to the film

a feminist for sure wrote that

 

[Ol’Otis]

As a black man with a white wife

this is what got the bullshyt started

he had been in at least 5 movies before and the rape charges were
never brought up

 

[IWunD3r]

It's funny how this cave bish saw that scene and had this to write

Birth of a Nation" transformed Nat Turner into a reactionary, angry slave out to avenge his wife's rape. That would be akin to a film about Rosa Parks claiming she refused to sit in the back of the bus because of a sexual assault. The rape plot device was unnecessary, awkward, uncomfortable and poorly executed.

Where was the camaraderie of women hood?
Where was the hurt ,and the pain she felt while sitting and watching her fellow women helplessly get raped and tortued by men?

During slavery, Black Women were getting raped like it was part of breathing.
So I don't see how it's farfetched that Nat Turner's wife was raped...

Yet the cave bytch felt no empathy or compassion for her fellow woman.
All the while, slave wenches are raising their blood pressure to stop this movie from coming out... all because of a lie, a retarded cave bytch told 17 years ago.