Birth of a Nation- Film Response
This film was released in 1915 and was considered an epic silent film that centered around the civil war. This film was adapted from the book and play, The Clansman. This film focuses on two families during the civil war and reconstruction era.
This movie had a few strong aspects, one of which being that it was fairly historically accurate from what I know about history and from what I’ve read. The fact that the movie depicted history fairly accurately really added to the believability factor of the movie. Since the movie is so old and outdated, it needed all it could get when it comings to realness. In contrast something that honestly was appalling was the use of blackface. I know that was acceptable at the time but, that’s not something that would be taken
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It was especially different from what I’m used to, being a child of the 2000’s. It makes the viewer confused and makes them focus on details. Originally not knowing what was going on annoyed me and made me irritated but, once I got the hang of the style, I actually enjoyed it. But after giving it some thought, this is one of the strongest production devices in the whole movie. Personally I feel this brought me closer to understanding what they must have felt. The down side to the film being silent was that it was very confusing and unclear if you didn’t have a clear understanding of what was supposed to be going on. If you turned away for even a second, you’d miss a line of dialogue or an important plot point. Which that’s not a huge deal nowadays but, if we didn’t have the ability to rewind it, I could easily see a distracted person like me completely missing the point of the movie. Along with that, I found that several times during the movie I’d have to stop and look something up just to clarify what was going