Sankofa

Sankofa Sankofa In the film, Sankofa, it is not difficult for me to understand what’s meaning of Sankofa. Throughout the film the meaning of word Sankofa is strongly emphasized The director of this film, Gerima, shows that why we must go back and experience our past so we can understand why and how we came to be and who we are today. He depicts the cruel injustices that the African slaves went through. Gerima tries to be as honest as possible to the audience what life was like for an African slave between the 17th and 19th century. Unlike Hollywood films which tend to be fast paced and action-packed, Sankofa, lays itself out slowly, however, its content and cinema photography are very detail and realistic in its cultural and historical representations of the African colony Through Gerima’s techniques; mysterious use of the drums, music, story telling, and breath-taking images of Africa, he invites audience to journey into the past, as Mona, a contemporary model reclaims her roots. Another important characteristic of the film is that Gerima depicts each slaver as being fundamental existence to the story. Unlike Hollywood films, in which slaves are portrayed as working together cooperatively, in Sankofa sankofa, film, story, slaves, slavery, out, gives, gerima, each, different, past, own, life, identity, hollywood, find, character, born, audience, african, africa, valuable, unlike, united, unique, understand, throughout, techniques, strongly, states, social, slave, show, realities, raised