in a way it would have be well if this film be terribly make and because then nobody would pay attention to it horrible message . to talk about the good and the cinematography be well do . some of the shot of the landscape and sky be breathtaking . though the lack of a decent budget show and the talent of the film crew be able to overcome that . however and despite the talent that go into the production and i can not give the movie a high score and because of it intolerable message . this movie purport to show the mistreatment of african american at the hand of white men . in some aspect this be certainly helpful . it be good to remember the horror we have inflict on others and to guard u against do so again . but the movie fall into propaganda with it heavy hand treatment of it character . the noble nunu and an african who zealously follow the paganism of her ancestor and be present a a saint without flaw . meanwhile and her mulatto son and joe and a faithful catholic and be unloving and murderous and and a traitor to his people . this be not a movie in which all people be show a corrupted and fallen being . this be a movie in which all african pagan be savage hero and and all white be licentious hypocritical christian . the white character be never anything other than cardboard cutout and two dimensional scapegoat for all the ill of the african . i do not even want to get into the unspoken insinuation that it joe white blood that have corrupt him . now and you might say i be be unfair . after all and be there not corrupt priest and slave owner who rap their slave and and traitorous mulatto . undoubtedly . but this movie never give u a hint that there be anything but those thing . this movie give u no reason to think not all priest aren not racist and that not all slave owner be rapist . furthermore and the movie force u to associate good african with paganism and and evil white and traitorous african american with christianity . joe kill his mother because she throw away his necklace of mary and and because the priest tell him his mother be the devil . shola doesn not join the good side until she attend the pagan ritual in the cave . not to mention the portrayal of africa a paradise and where nothing bad ever happen to anyone . no and before white enslave them and there be certainly no murder or rape among the african . not to say it be as bad a slavery and but the movie equation of africa with heaven be ridiculous . that the movie end with the slave slaughter the slave owner show the depravity of the movie . they have unfortunately agree with the philosophy of farakkhan and others who think that go back to africa and and cut off any connection with other race and be the correct path . in the end it be a movie that argue that outwardly choose a religion make you either an evil person or a good one and and that the correct way to respond to injustice be with revenge .