Los Angeles Premiere of ‘The Birth of a Nation’ held at Cinerama Dome – Arrivals
Featuring: Nate Parker
Where: Los Angeles, California, United States
When: 21 Sep 2016
Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com
Vinson Cunningham for The New Yorker:
“The Birth of a Nation” is not worth the efforts of its defenders. It’s hard even to call it a successful attempt at propaganda. The early euphoria surrounding the movie was prompted by the way it seemed to answer the demands of its time, sublimating the eye-for-an-eye Old Testament ethos of such fiery agitators as Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammad into the safer precincts of the screen. That fire was checked by a different political imperative: the need to listen to and respect the stories of women who have suffered at the hands of men. The first telling of Turner’s story was prompted by fear—a political force, yes, but also a primal feeling, as palpable today as it was almost two hundred years ago, in Southampton County.
