Three hours? Really???This is my first viewing of the "great" "The Birth of a Nation" -- the film we all learn about in history and media classes as being one of the great early films.
I can definitely see how everyone was taken by the film in 1915. And this was probably a good waste of three hours back then.
Today, I fell asleep twice and had to come back three different times to finish it off. I hate taking anything away from an artform or piece of work that helped a certain genre take off into its current form, but there are a number of things that should be put on the shelf and never touched.
All of this criticism, and I haven't even mentioned the depiction of African Americans and the Ku Klux Klan.
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