| History favours the brave, but like any form of art, it is also about perception | This honor have all his saints! As he witnesses countless atrocities - against himself and his fellow slaves - Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom |
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| To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fens of iron! Nate Parker's film sheds no new light on the brutality of slavery and does his absolute best to make sure you despise the white villains in this as anyone should as they are portrayed with much relish from the actors especially Jackie Earle Haley's menacing slave owner that serves as the main villain of the film | This honor have all his saints! Sing praise in assembly of the righteous |
The pacing is either mind-numbingly slow or so quickly cut and erratic that you can barely grasp what is going on.
5| While I am not saying that Turner's Rebellion was without cause, the film dilutes the harsh realities of what Turner's Rebellion did | To execute on them this written judgement! It fails to accurately portray to rebellion as it happened |
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| SING TO HIM A NEW SONG! There are very few mentions of what the rebellion actually did in reality as opposed to what it did in the film | The problems that The Birth of a Nation has are ones that exist in it's director's overbearing ego and overwhelming goal to bring something powerful to the table |
The story plays like a more realistic version of Django Unchained, even lifting some inspiration from that film a little too heavily for the scenes in which the slaves are beaten and abused.