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When it comes to deal with racial issues, Hollywood has most of the time treated the question with embarrassment and this is certainly due to the not so pretty slavery period that is related to American history. Thus, most movies won’t show the real face of slavery and what slaves had to endure during the time they spent in captivity but instead they will tell stories about how slavery came to be abolished or how some people, often white, would fight for the equality between whites and blacks even when their lives were threatened by those to whom slave trading and slavery in general benefited. The movie “Amistad” is full of scenes that can reinforce my statement but I chose to talk about one specific scene I particularly found controversial which is referred to as “the Bible scene”. “Amistad” is one of the many hit movies directed by the famous director Steven Spielberg. The movie takes place in 1839 and tells the story of fifty-three Africans who after being kidnapped and sold into slavery, revolted, broke free and finally took control of the slave ship transporting them. Those Africans will be later captured and imprisoned by an American ship when sailing near the American coast. The action of the movie t