Caught the William Wilberforce biopic Amazing Grace. Amazing good. No lack of great acting among the Brits! Beautifully set, beautifully filmed, a nice 18th century feel without going all museum on us. Amazing how gripping a film of parliamentary debate can be!
Still problematic. Lots of Americans will tell you Ronald Reagan won the Cold War, as if Walesa, Havel and their organizations, plus Leipzig and Timosoara, to say nothing of ol' Gorby, were just spectators. This film wants to tell you the slave trade was ended by William Wilberforce. No-o-o-o.
Oddity: why would they make the Duke of Clarence (the future King William IV) one of the film's key characters defending the slave trade? Nicely played by Toby Jones, Capote in Infamous, as another nasty dwarf, but Clarence wasn't in politics.
