Sankofa Movie Analysis

Films are created for many reasons. Some of these include to entertain, inform, and raise awareness. Whilst the film ‘Kokoda’ is entertaining, it also has some value as a historical source. However, its information is limited and some aspects of the battle are not portrayed. The battle conditions for Australian soldiers in Papua New Guinea is presented in an informative way in the movie yet it does not cover the conditions the Japanese soldiers had to face as well. The portrayal of the conditions for the 39th battalion full of Australians is depicted effectively in the film through scenes that emphasise the struggle and difficulties the soldiers faced due to them. We can see the tough terrain in many scenes in the movie such as when the

The film opened with Mona doing a model shoot. She was listening to her demanding white photographer ordering her to have more provocative looks. This Mona, has conformed into the white supremacy, adapting preconscious beliefs, abstract to black culture, and stubborn towards black ideas. Mona had no connection to her inner being and had little insight on who she really was. While continuing to capture photos, Mona and her photographer decides to capture near the Fortress. She becomes distracted by a drummer who leads her inside of the Fortress. Mona is now suddenly locked in a dark room. When she does find light, she noticed that she is surrounded by other Africans who were bound and shackled

The killings made by the slaves are saddening, too. Mutilating the whites and leaving their bodies lying is inhumane. It is such a shocking story. This book was meant to teach the reader on the inhumanity of slavery. It also gives us the image of what happened during the past years when slavery was practised.

Though slavery is taught throughout ones education, the severeness of it isn’t usually explained how the documentary Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation explains it. Throughout school, students typically don’t examine how the racial prejudice that was associated with slavery was horrific in so many different ways. This documentary allows viewers to be

Sankofa is an Ankan word which means, “We must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward ( Diop, 2014).” The film Sankofa was produced in the year 1993 in Ghana directed by Haile Gerima. It is based on the Atlantic slave trade. It is the story slavery from the point of view of Africans. In the film, all characters represent an element of African American culture (Gerima, 1993). It also shows the traditional racial scale with the whites at the top followed by Half-castes in the middle and blacks at the bottom.

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What if you were captured as a slave how would you feel? Do you think you could survive? In the 1700’s life was very different than it is now. Back then if you were a Negro you would have to be extra careful or you could be sold as a slave. But imagine being sold after witnessing the death of your parents and being a child you would be traumatized. Now we do not have those kinds of worries; life was very different then than it is now. As a child, Aminata was taken away and captured as a slave, faced public humiliation, and lost her family, but in the end she overcame it all.

Although the film was extremely upsetting, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie because I learned so much. Throughout the entirety of the film, I felt heartbroken and ashamed. I think I felt this way because being a white, upper-middle class individual, I have never experienced anything similar to what Africans Americans go through daily.

The mistreatment of slaves and the thought of slavery makes my heart feel heavy. The thought of living in that horrible situation is unforgiving and tragic. No one should be put into this situation. No one deserves maltreatment. Frederick Douglass's words really struck me and thus far, his story is heartbreaking. From a young age, Douglass experiences tragedy. He was born into slavery, and he was also half-black and half white.

After viewing the film 13th directed by Ava DuVernay, my perspective towards the black community in the United States has been altered. I felt the film was appropriate with its incorporation of violent images, videos, and statistics, which later persuaded me that there is maltreatment towards blacks in the United States. The police/ guard brutality aspect of the film directed towards blacks was inhumane and was a shock to me as a viewer. This same feeling that I had regarding brutality in the film was similar to one of the course reading excerpt, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vasa written by Olaudah Equiano himself. As Equiano describes his particular conditions while aboard of the slave ship to the destination of the Caribbean island of Barbados, the treatment of these black slaves I felt was equivalent to the maltreatment in which the film had visually provided. Both in the film directed by Ava DuVernay and Olaudah Equiano’s excerpts from his document, each provide examples of brutality directed towards the black race. This

The movie Sankofa, directed by Haile Germina, is a movie the follows the story of Mona, who's a model on a photo shoot for a white photographer, in a castle in Ghana, where apparently she doesn't know the sad historic weigh the place carries of her ancestors. While in her photo shoot she is told by a mysterious musician, to go back to her roots, something that seemed to had confused her. Later on while in the castle ruins she is transported to the past where she lives the life of a slave named Shola, who was abused by her owner and later on fights and rebels against her masters together with Shango, her love interest, and other slaves, like Nunu, who's son was of mixed race and converted to Christianity, raised by one of the white men and turned against his own people. After the rebellion Mona returns to the present and with a better understanding of her roots and the suffering of her descendants.

12 Years a Slave is an emotionally driven movie and book that exemplifies the painful truths of slavery. Slaves were killed, raped, hanged, and were viewed as property with no heart or soul. The scenes of beatings taken place, and slaves being hung, will make any hearted witness grimace and cringe in despair. This particular genre of entertainment is needed in order to inform and teach the history and stories behind the slave trade. It gives a vivid insight of how my ancestors were mistreated and felt the burning of hell every day. Solomon said, “He could not compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell” (45). We talk about slavery and how cruel it was, but I would not know unless I actually had to experience it myself. I’m not a voyeur of slavery, but I am a spectator through reading and watching. I do not enjoy reading a novel or observing a film that involves anything with black suffering, but in contrast I believe that by engaging in this type of theatre you can become a witness. I use this source of entertainment to gain knowledge and learn a sense of entitlement to my own history.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2008 motion picture Tokyo Sonata puts across an account involving a Japanese family as it needs to go through a series of problems that put their determination to test. Each of the four characters in the Sasaki family has trouble understanding what he or she wants from life and as he or she comes to learn and accept what his or her family has to say about his or her personality. Kurosawa most probably wanted to provide viewers with a rather common story occurring in an environment dominated by globalization a place where values change at a rapid pace and where people can or cannot find their personal identity.

Over 400 hundred years there has been slavery, racism, and discrimination in America with blacks, and other minorities. A famous man once said “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word” – Martin Luther King Jr (brain quote). The movies ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ directed by Spike Lee, and ’12 Years a Slave’ directed by Steve McQueen both show the struggle African Americans went through during a tough racial period in American history. Even today in Modern society African Americans still deal with racism. Spike

There are many different types of film and film genres. A film can fit into more than one genre, but there are some genres that are more general than others. Some examples of film genre are animated, science fiction, documentary, comedy, and historical fiction. Within each genre, there are also specific characteristics that help support themes and story lines within that genre.