Rosewood Film Analysis

The 1997 movie “Rosewood” is a movie about slavery which we watched in class. The top 5 main characters of the movie is Mann (Ving Rhames), Sylvester Carrier (Don Cheadle), John Wright (Jon Voight), Aunt Sarah (Esther Rolle), and Beulah “Scrappie” Carrier (Elise Neal). The plot of the movie is that Mann who is a veteran who served in World War I looking for land to buy and live when he comes across the small town of Rosewood which is a predominantly black town in Florida. There he meets Aunt Sarah, her son Sylvester and Beulah which he ends up falling in love with. Aunt Sarah working as a housekeeper for the neighboring town Sumter for a couple in which the wife gets beaten up by her husband. Sick and tired of getting beaten by her husband, she runs around the town yelling for help stating she was beaten up by a black man however, she was lying but the townspeople believe her since they were white. The townspeople and even
A movie like this should be watched by an audience who want to witness what occur in reality in 1923 instead of reading it from just texbook. However there will always be room for error since not everything is told. This appeals to an audience of any skin color and race since Americans should learn about history through the use of film. To be honest, I did enjoy the movie on how it was brought together by facts from the historic event that occur in 1923 and made it into a film 70 years later. Now there would be a larger audience since the movie was in every state and people of any race could have seen it. People who watched the movie would think of it just being a movie when it was a true story. Due to this movie i would give it 4 stars since there wasn't as much action in it as I’m used to because I enjoy action movies and any movie with better quality. However, I did learn of any event that I never knew happened in American