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Ill Gotten Gains (1997)
Honest and gripping, excellent movie
An amazing fact about this movie is it was filmed on the same boat as Amistad and also features Djimon Honsou in a starring role - even more amazing though is it had its premiere at the pan-african film festival before Amistad even started shooting. In a very eery and cunning way, modern street language is used to convey to us that although we appear to be in the hold of a slaveship in the nineteenth century we are actually on the streets of modern American 'urban' settings. This is a far more honest and revealing film about racism and slavery than the fluff piece 'Amistad'. I went to see this film three times before all the fine nuances became apparent to me. A hard and often harsh film but a must see if you really want to deal with the issues.