well, I’m surprised. Will Smith can actually act. I’ve never seen him play anyone but Will Smith before. He does an entirely convincing job as real-life runaway slave of Haitian descent, convincing French accent and all, in this not-as-heavy-as-it-wants-to-be civil war biopic. The movie itself is the sort of broad-strokes, morally (and visually too, in this case) black-and-white drama that Apple seems to show a lot of. I liked it ok, although, even though despite being socially progressive myself, I tend not to enjoy movies that are primarily about how bad oppression is. Yes, I know, I’m watching TV to get *away* from all that for a moment. I already know the confederate slavedrivers were probably really horrible people; I don’t get much from a hollywood recreation spending 2 hours telling me. Still, though, it was an alright watch.
