Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016) by Joe S — 09 Oct 2016

Although history is not very clear about the mentality of Nat Turner the man, the film tells the flip side to the movie that what depicted from D. W. Griffith. The 1915 feature tells the story from a southern white perspective while Nate Parker tells the version from the slave experience.

History tells of a man who was out of try to get sex from white women in those times and had it coming. The nature of today's version tells of a slave who is spiritually and literally educated and wants to spread knowledge through what he sees as a newly found way to have hope through who he gets to know as "The Lord".

Seeing that this is not exactly the ideal film to find or validate religious beliefs is not the premise of the story. It actually is thought to provoke. Although in history most know that Nat Turner lost the battle, maybe it will teach us how and why one would lose their religion, faith and hope.