Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mind, "Love Sick," followed "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," and was given the most striking live interpretation of all the songs that evening. "Love Sick" sets the introspective tone of the new album with a moody sound and sedate tempo, and in concert, with a thick and reverberating sonic treatment applied to the instruments, it was particularly effective...
...painfully portrays the anguished and horrid plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn't make clear who, so that while nobody is actually defending slavery during the body of the movie, the audience comes away with a sense that they need to feel guilty about something...
Although their credibility is ultimately undermined by Spielberg's treatment, the movie does contain numerous excellent acting performances. Djimon Hounsou plays the chief African with true and awesome pathos and power. He does more than anything else in the movie to inspire sympathy for the African's cause, and some of the scenes in which he attempts to communicate with his American counsels are quite touching. Hopkins is superb as the embittered yet wise ex-president. His long speech to the Supreme Court at the end is one of the most sincere and meaningful moments in the film...
...Africans in question were captured and sold into slavery by their fellow Africans, certainly a crime nearly as heinous as the actual practice of slavery. Spielberg does show us this, but very matter-of-factly, with nowhere near the emotional charge or passion with which he depicts the whites' treatment of the slaves. For the latter, he calls forth tempestuous lightning storms for back-drop, while he shows us shot after shot of pained, anguished, screaming faces in fast montage, while the former is simply and briefly shown with ordinary straight-on camera work. While he graphically lays bare...
...religion class to finish up a lab for my bio class," she says. "I sent an e-mail telling my religion TF, 'This would be a really good opportunity to let you know some of the time juggling I'm going through--not that I'm asking for special treatment...