I have not seen the film but look forward to it.
I"m so sick of black people whining about not getting movies like this made and when they do, they attack them with a viciousness they never apply to any other films.
I don't think most of the people attacking this film have seen it. They read an attack by someone and then co-sign it without seeing it.
Part of the reaction is our ambivalence with our relationship to the history of American slavery...and the typical disappointment people have with films about the subject.
Meanwhile the Jewish community continues to make films about the Holocaust and support them every time.
There is a wide enough range of depictions of black life for black folks to take the chip off their shoulder and deal with our legacy. And the movies about slavery are so much better than ever.
The ADOS argument is retarded beyond belief. Malcolm X, WEB DuBois and every other great black intellectual giant has supported Pan Africanism. A bunch of non achieving jealous scrum bums making jealous complaints about Black Brits and/or Africans achieving in America is a dismissible punk move.
As for the movie itself, I don't talk about things I haven't seen. But I know the producer and director, and they are people of great integrity.
Well with all due respect - disagree with your points here.
Saw the film and speak from experience on it and others who researched Harriet Tubman deeper than I like Dr. Claude Anderson - another true mentor and hero who wrote “Black Labor, White Wealth” and more has similar negative things to say about this horrible film. Harriet Tubman herself would not be happy with this mockery of her life - with good reasons.
Furthermore, Samuel Jackson -possibly the most successful Black actor here in America stated publicly that ADOS or Black Americans should have played the lead in Get Out and other films because we bring a nuance and skill to our history here that other so called Blacks cannot understand or embody - we are not all one tribe or nation. Hard facts. Malcolm X understood ADOS before this era and Harriet risked her life for us specifically to be free - we still don’t know we are often house slaves.
Honestly this movie insulted any so called Black who is politically conscious or has read the authorized biography of Harriet Tubman. It is propaganda and given the fact that so called Blacks in Nigeria and Ghana sold us to Caucasians and also owe us raparations. Really not surprised that house slaves made this shameful mockery of a movie. No passes here.