Steven Spielbergs Amistad

The article I read was a critical analysis of Steven Spielberg's Amistad. There were some
valid points made in the article with regards to the movie. Steve Lipkin writes: 'The film's docudramatic disclosure of history vindicates American justice as an ideological system.' I felt that this was a very important point. The film being a docudramatic representation of the times of United States slavery says something about what the movie is a symbol of. Though the accounts in the movie are about a time when Africans/African Americans were oppressed, the mere fact that the film was ma…