SYNOPSICS
The Amazing Grace (2006) is a English,Aboriginal movie. Jeta Amata has directed this movie. Nick Moran,Scott Cleverdon,Mbong Amata,Fred Amata are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2006. The Amazing Grace (2006) is considered one of the best Drama,History movie in India and around the world.
John Newton is captain of a slave ship moored off the coast of Nigeria. He stands at a crossroads in his life, his morality and religion at odds with the brutality of his chosen profession. Stepping ashore, he starts on a journey of redemption that will end in tragedy but prove the catalyst for greater achievements. A local anthem sung in adversity by the slaves he captures punctuates the film. It will be the inspiration for John Newton's redemption, and, years later, for his writing of the world's most enduring hymn, Amazing Grace.
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The Amazing Grace (2006) Reviews
Opportunity lost
Oh dear! Why do they do it? Why do they change history when history is already a dramatic and awful story? The movie falls into the usual trap of trying to be politically correct and a good example is the scene showing peaceful Africans apparently attending the village fête with song contests and wrestling and happy go lucky natives dancing and having fun...before being pillaged and kidnapped and murdered by evil white men on a slaving raid. Unfortunately this has little, if anything, to do with reality and common sense! The implicit racism presumes that white men were more intelligent and cunning and could survive better in this unfamiliar land than the childlike natives who were born there! Absolute nonsense! The slave coast was densely populated with warlike tribes who were well armed (admittedly with European guns) and who spent much of their time raiding and pillaging and enslaving each other. We know as historical fact that most slave ships trading on the coast consisted of crews of less than 30 seamen many of whom quickly became ill and were likely to die of disease if they spent any length of time in one of the unhealthiest climates on the planet which was totally alien to them! The ugly reality of history is that the vast majority of slaves that left the coast were bought from Africans who willingly sold them! The true evil of the slave trade is that white Europeans created the demand that ensured the largest diaspora and ultimately, murder of peoples in history, and it disrupted and destroyed almost the entire African continent. The effects of the evil trade are still being felt in Africa today. If you're going to spend money making a movie about an historical figure who certainly had an interesting and moving story...at least tell it honestly, show the ugly face of slavery, whether by black or white people, and stop perpetuating myths taught at school to kindergärtners!
Watchable But could have been better
This is not a bad film and very watchable, but it could have been a lot better. I am not sure how accurate it all is Historically but it does show some of the things that made slavery such an appalling part of mans history. I doubt the love story part of it was true and Newton carried on as a slave trader many years after these events were suppose to take place. I doubt the native African women wore quite that many clothes and I doubt the society they lived in was quite as westernised as portrayed. That being said it is worth a watch and has some interesting and dramatic moments. Also Nigerian director/writer/producer Jeta Amata, the film provides a refreshing and creative African perspective on the familiar "Amazing Grace" theme. Nigerian actors Joke Silva, Mbong Odungide, and Fred Amata (brother of the director) portray Africans who are captured and wrested away from their homeland by slave traders.