BIRTH OF A NATION

BIRTH OF A NATION







The Birth of a Nation
Denethri Arbor
Ashford University
ENG 225 Introduction to Film
Instructor: Jennifer Wiesman
April 7, 2014














THE BIRTH OF A NATION
The movie under critique is “The Birth of a Nation”, written and directed by D.W. Griffith. The film, which was mainly set in a town, in South Carolina, before and following to the Civil War, replicates servitude in a composed manner, characterize black people as being useful for small however predictable work, and exhibit them, in Reconstruction, as having been forced by the Radical Republicans into approving a threatening space over Southern white people. It represent freedmen as captivated by intermarriage, being incorporated endorsed pernicious and richness brutality basically to urge white women into relations of the sexual nature. It portrays Southern Whites establishing the Ku Klux Klan to guarantee themselves from such outrages and to incite the “Aryan” cause overall. The film affirms that the white-sheet-clad death squadron served up value swiftly, and that, through disapproving colored people the right of being possessed with voting and putting them all around subordinate and differentiated, it restored progress and appeal to the South.
The art of Griffith presents moments that are humanly profound, whether delicate and graceful or rhetorical and grand, that disengage themselves from their situation to investigate nearly worldwide circumstances, like the blend of pride and shame in a returning Confederate soldier’s face. This is when he returns home in tatters meeting his sister in tatters too, or the strong adventures of Lillian Gish, a Union Girl sending her brother to war before breaking down into “tears when the two are just out of view. The magnificent shot that begins close to children and their mother, high on the hillside, and thereafter progresses to the advance of the army of Sherman, seen from the elevated refuge of the family,...

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