Sankofa [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of Sankofa [VHS]
Movie Review: Deep
Summary: 5 Stars
We couldnt take our eyes off of the TV. The raw emotion and the realization that these things actually happened to our greatgrandparents and grandparents alike made us take a long hard look at what we have done to ourselves as a people over the course of history. This movie also opens your eyes as to how we have come to be entertwined. Good family movie.Movie Review: the real deal, please watch and learn
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie though it may be hard for some people to understand the entire message, it is a strong message that must be heard over and over again. The past is not that far away. Watch it and learn.Movie Review: WOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched this movie for my African-American Life and History course at CSU Monterey Bay. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. This movie makes you feel like you are a part of the planation. It is definitely worth the money to purchase it if you are at all interested in African-American history.Movie Review: A Phenomenal Accomplishment
Summary: 5 Stars
First, you should know that the original reels of this film were destroyed in a 1995 house fire, so you'll never see it on the large screen again. Get this video NOW!As for the story, it's a wonderful piece of storytelling that is occasionally marred by shallow characteristics (e.g., the mulatto son / "traitor"). However, the big win is in the cast's ability to evoke real emotion, tension and even joy from the audience. I've seen this on the big screen - when Gerima's family was driving it from city to city holding impromptu screenings. And I've seen it repeatedly on VHS. It never fails to amaze me and inspire dialogue among the people I'm forcing to view it.
I suggest this film be viewed as part of an unintended trilogy in this order: 1) The Last Supper (the Cuban film by T.G. Alea, not the Christian hollywood piece), 2) Sankofa, 3) Quilombo.
These three complement each other nicely in the context of slavery and rebellion and freedom. A fundamentally "African in the Americas" story that never tires from treatment.
Movie Review: Splendid!
Summary: 5 Stars
In his film, Sankofa, Haile Gerima sets forth a fantastical, yet fact based portrayal of a modern, self absorbed, American woman and her mysterious voyage back in time from a modern day shell of a West African slave fortress island to a French Louisiana sugar plantation. Gerima's factual basis of the lives of those who worked on the plantation cover much information and present a general overview of the lives of sugar slaves in Louisiana and the Caribbean. The film offers many aspects of historical accuracy and should be viewed as a reminder to blacks to "Return to your past" and for whites to return to their ancestry and the ancestry of their race and seek areas of injustice that can be sources of justice-seeking today.