[ SECRET POST #2820 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2820 ⌋

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Comments

[evewithanapple]

I don't think Ford was especially villainized in the film- at least not any more than he villainized himself by his actions. After all, he did keep slaves, and he did hire and continue to employ a violent racist to oversee their work, and in the course of buying and selling slaves, he did split up families. And they spell this out in the movie: Solomon defends Ford, but Eliza says he's as bad as the rest of them. Northrup's IRL viewpoint is still represented- it's just that others in the film disagree with him.

[tree_and_leaf]

I agree with this - I hadn't seen McQueen's comments and I interpreted that part of the film as a powerful reminder of the insidiousness of systematic evils like slavery. Even someone like Ford, instinctively a kind, empathic man, is so caught up in that system that he can't see its intrinsic evil, and feels that he's justified in doing things like splitting up families because of the economic framework. I'm not sure if Eliza's right to think that he's _as_ bad as the others, but she' s certainly right that he's bad.

Eppes would do horrible things in any society, because he' s a sadistic sociopath. Ford does bad things because he's been corrupted by the wickedness of the social system.