I finally watched this movie. I was utterly floored at how relatable so many of the scenes were. I am a biracial child adopted into a white family from birth. Everything she felt, I have felt. I feel as if this is the first time an accurate picture has been portrayed of someone like me. Though this story is from the past it speaks to the notion that society doesn't change much. It just goes through phases of darkness and then awakening.
Amelia Allen Oh absolutely I could eat with my family , but could I shop for food with my mom without people asking if we were together then the answer is no. You can experience exclusion in many ways like I said the exact method is different in a lot of situations, but the feelings are the same. As long as people see race as a marker of where a person" should " be in our society the problems will always be there. If those people in the supermarket had been taking cues from anything other than race it would have been obvious she was my mother things like me calling her "Mom" , but it was so hard for them to put me in a box I didn't belong they ignored every other cue.
I'm a Jewish man married to a Black woman, and I made damn sure my children never felt anything but loved with a sense of pride and confidence. But I do see how it can still happen today.
@@hydraelectricblue hello hope you're doing well, this comment was year's ago but I found it relatable. I too experience the same with many people staring and asking questions especially at the grocery store if we were my mother's children. Some people really are rude and need to get out more.
I haven't watched it, yet, but I'm all over RU-vid, watching all I can about it & I can't stop crying! I don't know why, it's just... there's something very special about it & about Gugu...
It is evident racism is still alive and well, Sam Reid deserved a Bafta and Oscar as did Gugu-mabatha Raw, and the director. This should also have won an Oscar. This movie was a masterpiece in every sense of the word.
I saw this movie two weeks ago and wow it is such a well acted, well written, well delivered piece of cinema. It is not just about her color but it's a story very much wrapped within the layers of that time (women's rights, color, and historical facts). I cannot wait until this comes to DVD, it's definitely worth buying and keeping in a collection amongst the greats.
I absolutely could not wait to see this movie when it came out only to have a hard time finding it in theaters. I had to go to a small private owned theater in Manhattan to see this. It's still very underrated but the movie was executed perfectly. This should have gotten as much publicity as Pride & Prejudice and 12 years a slave. I cant watch it enough!!
Butterfly86 I remembering telling as many people as possible about it and was grateful I could find a theater that was playing it. It wasn’t in theaters for long so I was fortunate. So many of my friends never heard anything about it. It’s up there with my regency favorites like pride and prejudice
This movie is a JEWEL, a must see for all. THE actors are superb, the writer is genius, the producers and directors gifted and well educated on the subject matter. THE REALITY is it should have won BAFTAS for best picture,director,actor and actress,the SLIGHT shows this industry still has racists in places they shouldn't be and like cancer they must be extracted.
When I saw this movie. I was speechless. Wonderful movie and the way she reacted when she seen her picture. I think I felt that feeling with her that she now belonged. Side note I hope they do a movie about biracial slaves in America and show people they had it rough too. I know Dido wasn't a Slave.
Such an amazing movie!! If you haven't seen it, you really should! I love films like this that are set in the old days. The dresses, the language, and the fact that this movie is from a true story makes it so much more real.
my wife and I saw this film yesterday and really enjoyed it .We both had tears in our eyes at the end. Great acting by Tom Wilkinson and period locations.
As with "Amazing Grace", this is now two great period pieces from that era and the opening of eyes and hearts in the British empire. Both extremely well written and acted and highly emotional true stories with absolutely GREAT men and women who stood up for one of the greatest atrocities in human history. I think they are both brilliantly portrayed and cast -- the true height of movie making.
I loved this movie. It was fantastic and made me cry in multiple points. As a biracial girl, it was very relatable. Well done... Draco Malfoy(Tom Felton) always knows how to play a douche btw xD lol
Claudia Torres The film is on putlocker if your still wanting to watch it. You don't have to sign up or download anything, just best to close all ads that pop up
No, I mean Esther, whose original name was Hadassah. The Jewish orphan who was chosen to marry a Persian king. It's a long story, but the King's vizier was hellbent on committing genocide against the Jews, portraying them to be traitors to the Persian Empire. The King was going to go along with it, but Esther stopped it from happening by revealing herself as a Jew and begging him not to go through with it.
"The economic growth was based on slavery. Most workers were slaves, or indentured servants. It was "illegal" to be black and free, unless you were under the protection of a usually rich white household, like Belle was." *Some* economic growth was based on slavery. Not all. And there were lots of workers who weren't slaves out in the colonies. Irish, Cornish, Chinese etc. And if it was illegal to be black and free how do you account for Freedmen? Former slaves *legally* granted their freedom? And slavery was never legal under common law in Britain. Nobody's denying the horrors of slavery, but inaccurate sweeping generalisations aren't helpful.
Her parentage came from a white and black family she was never a slave to her own family she was adopted as one because she was half white since John Linsey was her biological father. I too not of any African desent feels your entire comment is absolutely bullshit!!!!!
stoatsman my friend its a fact that the slave trade and slavery itself made the british economy make its trandition from mercantelism to capitalism. The insurance znd banking power houses use to use slaves as hard core capital.
Queen Blockchain///// Playing ignorant is so boring, truth is a bitch isn't it or perhaps you are a flatliner and I'm giving you to much credit. Bitch, pickup a history book.
Reviewing the film for History Extra, the official website of BBC History Magazine, James Walvin OBE, professor emeritus of the University of York noted that while the second half of the film centres on Dido Elizabeth Belle's involvement in the Zong case, in reality she was "nowhere to be found in the Zong affair".Much of the historical evidence is there - though festooned in the film with imaginary relishes and fictional tricks.
@@thrshwll1526"people like to hide things" ironic as that's what happen in the movie.... 90% of the movie was fake and opposite to the real history. her cousin was the heiress irl and married a titled Aristocrat, Dido was broke and unwanted, her father left her nothing not even acknowledgement.... i wonder why they hid this huhh
@@thrshwll1526 what are you talking about! this MOVIE 🎥 is a lie, i literally just read her real historical book!! her cousin was the heiress of £40,000 Google it then! while Dido was broke asf
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This movie was one of my favorite But when I do the research it's a lie. A movie to where white people tried to portray themselves in a good light..Dido Belle was NOT acknowledged by her father she was dropped of to the lordship but the question remains what her actually role she served them til she was 31 when the the lord died he never acknowledge her as his niece in his will he gave her 200 but then boost it up to 500 while he was living she was only given 5$ a month. Her mother at 14 was captive by her father gave birth to Belle when she was 15 she was his slave on his ship which he eventually freed her gave her a piece of land which she had ten years to build her a house. They never Belle acknowledge her as blood her dad had five other children and because they could pass for white he claimed them and left them everything... truly want to know why the artist painted the picture the way he did. That was truly an act ordained by GOD. The painting was placed in the attic for years and later on someone who inherited the house they discovered the painting which now sit in I believe in the Scotlands home or museum.
F that crap they didn't respect her they feared the position of that guy and to be a family pet is nothing to brag about her experience is greatly eclipsed by the lack of morals humanity and ethics of the people of that era her life is nothing more then a display of surviving not thriving how can one ever be able to have a life in that state and to give the impression that she was doing well is comparing her to other women of color in that era like a double bad is better then a triple bad lol her story is lost she was born and never lived allowed to survive but not thrive a gift provided to her by the Most High the gift of life but she was told lies to make her think she needed the approval of others for her life to have purpose and meaning I'm not impressed by how this movie was written because it makes it seem as if she was thriving when she was just surviving she was a child of rape....... if you are a women of color it didn't matter you were treated like crap struggling for food here is this guy who brings you bread or soup why do you like him is it due to your emotions or your situation its called Stockholm syndrome mixed with PTSD a person in that mind state who is being victimized is not providing physical exchange willingly but the movie is not for the truth of her life it is very watered down the only part of her life that is accurate in the movie is her name as for the rest it should have been left on the cutting room floor it's not telling her true story
I like your post but please write with comas and periods. You wrote a sentence that was at least 3 paragraphs long. I'm not getting on you.. it's just something I couldn't ignore.
her name wasn't even accurate in the movie because obviously it tied to the truth. irl her name was Dido elizabeth belle, she was called Miss Belle... Dido irl was never acknowledged by her father hence her last name taken by her slve mother Belle the movie wanted her to be acknowledged hence Lindsay and she was called Miss Lindsay... when she was never that irl
The economic growth was based on slavery. Most workers were slaves, or indentured servants. It was "illegal" to be black and free, unless you were under the protection of a usually rich white household, like Belle was.
I came across this movie while getting my nails done. A lady was selling DVDs 5 for $10. I had one more to choose from and chose Belle which I had never hear of. I ended up watching this dvd years later. Turns out it was the best movie out of the dvds I bought that day. Loved this movie. It wasn't in main stream media like it should have been and that's ashame. If it was black people killing each other, it would've won awards and every actor's career would've been elevated. SUCKS
@@samanthasmith61 so what really happened? Her mother was raped by her white father. She was born black. Her father took her to be raised by his family after her mother died. She was treated like a second class citizen in her own house. What did they get wrong?
@@thrshwll1526 first they act like her father didn't rape her mother, also her mother didn't die, she was still alive living in US. her dad continue to have 5 other illegitimate children from 5 different women and none by his lawful wife. anyway the biggest thing they purposefully lie is making dido an heiress to 50000 pound fortune generating 2000 pound a year, in real life dido's father was broke af, he didn't even left dido a penny, her great uncle only left her 500 pound.
@@thrshwll1526 Dido couldn't have meet John daviniere because he was a french servant/valet, he wouldn't even ever speak to Lord Mansfield he is a valet!! and Dido married him after the death of lord mansfield and when she was 32 years old... she also had no involvement with any case as it was unsuitable for gentlewoman to even know this stuff, she does menial task but Lord Mansfield had his own secretary which he awarded in his will. she can't even sit in dining room, she will never be present in any sort of party thrown by the family, in diary of Mary Hamilton ( she was cousin and close friend of Louisa, the Stepmom who marry Elizabeth's father) she visited Kenwood several times but throughout her diary she never once mentioned dido, even though she described every member of the family meticulously even the parish priest got mentioned, no she wasn't a racist as she was a progressive but improvished woman and part of blue stocking intelligent women. from her diary entry, we know Dido was hide away somewhere, and Mary Hamilton wasn't even guest in that sense, by being cousin of Louisa she is technically member of the family and no need to hide dido... and there are so many lies!!! even with this few FACTS we know about real Dido!! this movie can't never happened... she wasn't rich, she wasn't parade to find suitor, she wasn't involved in any case, she can't even meet servant valet john daviniere, she wasn't present in party, john daviniere wasn't a lawyer but a servant.
@@thrshwll1526 Elizabeth was rich af, she married first long before Dido to George finch hatton 10th Earl of winchilsea 5th Earl of Nottingham, her husband outrank her own father. so more lies!! 🥴 it's so fake it's PATHETIC you can read more of her in her Wikipedia page, a lot dido enthusiast try to uncover her truth
