ROOTS "Kizzy" Painful Decision
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Published 2015-04-12
Most importantly, the enslaved were conditioned to go on with life as usual knowing their family member will never be seen again. How many people could have survived this horrific cruelty?
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Having rewatched the series, I think the character I feel the most sorry for is Kizzy's mother, Belle. She never knew what it was like to be free and she lost her first husband and had to watch all three of her children get sold away from her. Then in the end she gets sold to a traveling slave trader, so she winds up eventually being separated from every single person she loved and even the place she'd lived most of her life. What a raw deal.
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Madge Sinclair (Mami Belle) deserved an award for this; makes me cry every time I watch this part..
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4:38 if you listen carefully Kizzy says”you said I was your friend” which for me is the saddest part of the scene. Cause kizzy is getting split up from her parents and crying and begging for her help but she just stands there and watches and looks like she couldnt care less. Some “friend” she turned out to be
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The really sad thing here is that this is what Kunta warned Bell about the whole time. Getting any kind of close with people who basically control your destiny. A near lifetime of loyalty couldn't save this child of hers any more than the first two that were sold away from her.
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To think, this happened to hundreds of black families...This is where the breakdown of the black family started
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I was traumatized by this when I was nine. Now that I have two daughters, it makes me cry every time. There was physical pain inflicted on slaves to be sure. But THIS sort of emotional pain was perhaps the cruelest sort inflicted of all.
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The saddest part of the whole mini series. My wife couldn't stop crying and said she didn't wanna watch it anymore. Powerful. 😔
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They said that after filming this scene, it was so quiet after they called "cut" that you could hear a pin drop.
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What’s even sadder is that Toby/Kunta and Belle had to live on and work his land, as if nothing happened. And this was the last we seen of both Toby and Belle.
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Its a shame to say slavery still exist today just under a different name
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The thing that I remember most about Roots was how Robert Reed ( Brady Brunch), Lorne Greene (Bonanza), and Chuck Connors (The Rifleman), who were most popular for the good guy roles they played on classic TV sitcoms, became some of the most ruthless and despised villains ever in this movie. I guess that speaks volumes about how good actors they were.
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When she began to beg for her child I felt it...I could see me as a mother in that woman
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this scene always floods my eyes with tears.
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Every Black child needs to watch this scene.
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Absolutely the most heart wrenching moment of Roots. The casting was perfect and I never fail to cry my eyes out at this scene. Slavery was so deplorable
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Kizzy should have never trusted that Karen. The plantation was the birthplace of the Karen.
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its disgusting that people get robbed of basic humanity
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This was so hard for Bell because what Kizzy did was the "exact" same thing that she did when she helped her First Husband Ben to try and escape. He got caught, got sent to another Plantation and they took her Baby Girl away from her.
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I can't believe a humans could be so inhumane, vile and cruel. This is a horror film.
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Not only does Reynolds tear this family apart, he doesn’t even give them the chance to say goodbye to each other.
