2016 · drama · revenge
The Birth of a Nation
Directed by Nate Parker2h 0m2016
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
Our read: The Birth of a Nation (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / revenge, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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