"Its was so bad and distracting it made me angry."
Do you think enslaved people appreciated the blue of the sky and the yellow of the sun and the green of the grass while working to death and/or being whipped into a coma? Where their lives bright and poppy or drained and bleak?
"This arty-fartsy filter"
Existed since the advent of film and places you inside the minds and emotions and spirit and psychology of the people the film depicts.
"It ruined the movie."
This was not a movie, this was an illuminated historical videograph
"It was distracting."
The brutality of slavery is indeed distracting
"Like you could see how beautiful landscape is. You can see colors in production pictures from set."
The human drama playing out on that landscape was not beautiful or colourful, hence the bleak brutal stark photodirection
"Its like did director think that people lived in black and white colors back then"
The people did, that was the point of the film........
"With everything being gray"
Everything was gray and hazy and desaturated because there was a Civil War raging, everything was a gray zone socially and politically
"you constantly were losing what was happening. As characters were getting lost among trees, everything flickered."
Exact;y, everybody was losing track of what was happening, man was enslaving and brutalizing fellow man, everybody was lost among the trees, life flickered, and the photo direction presented that. Lost among the trees and everything flickering = existential fear, confusion, chaos, indeterminate future
"It never felt like Will Smith was running for days. It felt like he was running in circles the same place of 5 miles. As everything looked the same."
Because it did, that is often what happens in life, people run in circles never seeming to move forward, circling backwards, everything looking the same, nothing changing. That's how it feels when you're running for your life through Louisiana wooded swamp wilderness. That's how it feels often feels, you continue to circle and circle and circle and circle and wherever you go everything is the same.
"And then they had this huge battle in the end. That was supposed to be epic and sad. But it was just laughable."
You're laughable, almost everybody on this pro-Trump site is laughable and epic and sad, none of you understand film
"But because everything looked grey and the same"
Like slavery and war
"you didnt understand what was happening"
Neither did the people enslaved, neither did the white plantation overseers who were uneducated backwoods dirt farmers exploiting people just like then for a penny, neither did the uneducated backwoods dirt farmers who joined the confederate army to defend a system that did not benefit them, half the people did not seem to understand this slavery thing that was happening was unChristian, immoral, unethical, brutal, pure evil, the other half knew it was wrong and could not believe what they were witnessing, could not understand how this could be happening, confusion and disbelief abounded
"who is attacking who and who you should root for. And you just waited for it to be over. There was no emotions at all.
Exactly like slavery. Who is attacking who (white overseers and slaveowners acted like Africans were attacking them when Africans dared to "act up", anything Africans did was "acting up") and who to root for and waiting for the entire era of slavery and civil was to be over and no emotions at all after being repeatedly whipped
"I was watching it and asking: "Will they show us color version one day?" "
There already are colour films about slavery and the civil war that predate your existence
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