Review of The Birth of a Nation (1915) by Alex R — 27 Mar 2013

This film is critical, simply horrible at attacking the idea of racism but a brilliant epic tale of the Southerners vision of how slavery was dealt with in the south.

Lets look at this portray as a work of art and not in terms of racism. As to be one of the first films to be released; in the year 1915 racism was something African Americans were still dealing. As of today racism has decreased but still alive.

This film is representation of self expression and the belief of what freedom of speech is. I love the main idea behind the composition of the story. The soundtrack at it's early work most likely fitted at the time for this art work, could not be compared to fantastic work of Han Zimmer, Thomas Newman or many more. I think as movie critics we look at the way movies are portrayed even when they are dealing with topics that most people avoid. I applaud D.W. Griffith for his direction of telling this story.