Today was an EXCELLENT day even though it was kind of windy.  The reason I say that it was excellent was because today was actually the first day that I actually enjoyed my lunch.  Also beside that, it was a very informative day for me.  I was able to soak up a lot of information.  This was also the day that I watched the Amistad movie.  Now, it was not my first time seeing the movie, but my first time actually paying close attention to intricate details.

When watching the beginning the movie I began to squirm like always; just a little bit of my human emotion coming out.  After sitting there for how many hours and really watching and picking apart each seen piece by piece the story really started to become a little clear to me.  I believe that the director of the movie did an awesome job of getting his point across.  Also, just showing the audience of what a typical day would be like as a slave. 

As far as the movie goes, In my opinion I did not like how they portrayed people of colour in the beginning. In contrast, I do believe that the movie had a very powerful opening.  I liked how the movie showed that it does not matter if two people come from the same country, that they still have a language barrier.  I also noticed that on the ship life was chaotic and disorganized between the different enslaved Africans because of the language barrier.  The language barrier seem to have been done  on purpose so that the enslaved would not try to revolt.  In the case of the Amistad captives, it did not work.  It is one reason why  I liked the movie.

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