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Incorrect facts — no matter how small — can and should be corrected as soon as possible. If you do not receive a confirmation message shortly, please check your Spam or Bulk E-Mail folder. Soundtracks Oluwa by Quincy Jones. User reviews 71 Review. Top review. Despite the controversy surrounding the book, and the facts of Haley's ancestry for example, the slave Toby aka "Kunte Kinte", may never have fathered Kizzy and therefore may not be a direct ancestor of Haley the series is an important and ground-breaking work in its stunning portrayal of slave life in America from the late 18th century to the midth century.
For decades, the United States has been largely in denial of its treatment of African-Americans both as slaves and later in post-Civil War periods. The south of the 19th century had fabricated the reality of slave conditions and down-played the brutality inflicted on both slaves and anti-slave sympathizers. Racial hatred and brutality continued into the 20th century, largely fueled by white traditions that have and continue to concoct misrepresentations of historical reality to younger generations.
By the middle of the 20th century, nearly years after the end of the American Civil War, President Johnson signed Civil Rights legislation into law with the White Southern community kicking and screaming all the way.
If legislation couldn't change people's hearts and minds, what could? There had never before been a nationally distributed film production that honestly told the story of the African-American slave experience. I regard those network executives that green-lighted the broadcast in great esteem for their willingness to take a chance on this most-important series.
I doubt whether US commercial television will ever produce and broadcast such a high-caliber and controversial program again in the near future. And to give credit to the American viewing public, "Roots" was a huge success. From beginning to end, "Roots" is an absolute triumph of film production, the best-ever miniseries offered by a corporate network prior to the rise of cable television.
The acting and the script are top-notch. Even OJ Simpson makes an appearance. A lot of notable white talent appears as well, such as Ed Asner and Sandy Duncan. Slavery is a tragedy and "Roots" is a tragic story. The whipping of the young Kunte Kinte to "break" him into slavery.
The selling of Kizzy, Toby's daughter, to another slave master because of her involvement with a scheme to help a runaway. These are the moments that make Roots' larger point. Another aspect that makes Roots effective in its rhetoric is that it never seeps into sentimentality to makes its point. The story relies on an honest narrative and the audience is left to draw their on conclusions. Is it brutal? And that is what it was. If you don't believe "Roots", sell yourself into slavery and see how you like it.
Two aspects occur to me about what this story means beyond just the plain inhumanity of the institution of slavery. One aspect is that the benefit of slavery is terribly minute when compared to the staggering price paid by the slaves themselves and everyone else.
Simultaneously, non-slaves were pressed into service to maintain slavery as an institution. Such titanic sadness, misery, hopelessness brutality, and inhumanity is forced upon people both slave and non-slave in return for a more comfortable life for a minuscule segment of the population. And yet the amount of work, effort, and money to maintain the inhumane infrastructure seems more burdensome than if these people were free. The average white southerner could not afford to own slaves, and many worked for slave owners as overseers, slave-catchers, auctioneers, and other positions designed to maintain the institution.
In short, misery for thousands with a little comfort for a few. The other tragedy is the denial of positive contribution to society. Those who were slaves were denied giving their love, their knowledge, their inspiration, and their culture to society. All this beauty sacrificed so a few white aristocrats can laze around on sofas in front of fireplaces in giant mansions.
Someone once said that if we don't help foster the gifts in other people, we run the risk of never seeing how our world could be made better. Matthew Goode Dr. William Waller as Dr. William Waller. Emayatzy Corinealdi Belle as Belle. Erica Tazel Matilda as Matilda. Anika Noni Rose Kizzy as Kizzy. Tony Curran Connelly as Connelly. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The groundbreaking series reimagined. Biography Drama History War. Did you know Edit. Trivia LeVar Burton makes a cameo as the slave Ephraim, who is being transported in the caged wagon from the Waller plantation.
He stares at Kunta Kinte. Goofs When Kunta Kinte is on the ship heading for America in , the flag used has the red diagonals in the Union Jack. These we not added until the Act of Union with Ireland in User reviews 70 Review. Top review. Love the re-make! Such a delight! Both my young daughters we're able to follow and stay interested; now they both have lots of questions about American history Very nicely re-made. Hopefully now they will be interested in watching the original although not in HD , or they will ask to actually read the book.
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