Setting aside the license writer / director Nate Parker has taken in his
retelling of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, the film distresses
because it borrows so freely and unnecessarily from the slave film
canon. The freshest element is Parker’s portrayal of Turner but even his
performance, which is quite good BTW, has remnant patches of Roots,
Glory and even 12 Years a Slave. The film is as bleak and bloody as the
event it recounts but without the resonance of many of its predecessors
and so I left feeling awful but not enlightened.
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