Really late in watching this, partly because of the content. But this outstanding film stands alongside Schindler’s List in portraying a horrific and evil system in a historical context in a compelling and nuanced way. But let the reader understand, we are watching a concentration camp — a beautifully set one — but a concentration camp none the less. The everyday horror and casual brutality, often inflicted enslaved slave person against enslaved person, was the worst, and the evil way that the Bible was ‘interpreted’ to support slavery and oppression. Not to mention the degradation of people, the casual stripping and poking as though they were goods not people…
