Surging with a brutal, take-no-prisoners vision of a time much darker, yet comparable to today’s spectrum of injustice and loss of life, Nate Parker’s tale of a slave/preacher turned rebel leader navigating the blood-soaked Antebellum South is a searing piece of cinema.
It’s aesthetic ranges from ghastly wide shots of murdered slaves hanging from trees, to floaty sequences of newly-weds who find love in this very real nightmare that stains American history. Parker dragged a serious…
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