Sentences with phrase «get out of the slavery»

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All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like, say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.

@Saraswati «All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority»

Separating as best we can fact from legend, we know that the Lincolns set out for Indiana in 1816, crossing the Ohio River in search of better land titles and - at least according to recent biographer David Herbert Donald - in order to get away from slavery.

When atrocities happen, such as the holocost, slavery, wiping out the original inhabitants of the Americas, we should never require anyone affected to just «get over it».

Like the British who turned a blind eye to slavery in the name of consumerism, tens of millions of Americans seem content to tune out the human suffering tied to how we spend our money, as long as they get what they want.

The black that succeeded in life, did not blame it on slavery but got out of bed early and went after an education and got it.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Landing its sharp social commentary somewhere between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Society, Get Out takes racism's more traditional forms — slavery, incarceration, exploitation, blackface — for a new, thoroughly modern appropriative spin.

There are several scenes we've already seen in at least one previous trailer, but this also includes some new moments of Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) and his argumentative cabinet figuring out how to get the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution — outlawing slavery — through the system without derailing efforts to end the bloody Civil War.

But that sliver of social import helps explain the neither - here - nor - there quality of the film: It can't be an out - and - out exploitation movie, lest it undercut its message on the evils of sex slavery, but it's not really genuinely interested enough to get the details right.