Here's my go at it. I am a native English speaker so I may have some difficulty with the chinese parts.
Something About Amistad
I love Spielberg. I love Dreamworks. I love E.T., Catch Me If You Can, Schindler’s List, Minority Report, and Saving Private Ryan. In all of them, I can find touching or shaking. I cannnot[In formal writing contractions should be avoided] forget the moving [Moving here is rather strange. I think that feeling would be better] when I saw Ron`s mother sit on the ground（坐倒在地） when she heard the death [This should be: heard of the death] of her three children. I cannot forget the impulse of crying ["Impulse of crying" doesn't make sense. I think you meant feeling.] when I saw the ["The" should not be here.] E.T. said ‘home, home…’ I cannot forget the pleased surprise [pleasant surprise] when I found the going of plot was unexpectedly[I realized that the plot developed unexpectedly]. I even feel excited every time when [delete when] I see the logo of Dreamworks. That’s really for dream.[I don't understand this last sentence.]
But in the movie Amistad, I found nothing, nothing touching nothing moving. A little shaking, but no to my soul.[I don't understand this.]（有少许震撼，但未及灵魂）
The story is very simple. It talk(s) about a lawyer help(ing) a group of slaves save their lives. This theme looks quite like Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg tries to show us human nature in a special period. The heroes in his camera lens are not perfect. They seem a little bit cold, 不近人情, sometimes even selfish. But that’s a real person, not only a movie character. In the description of social contexts or big event(s) (like the 诺曼底登陆[Invasion of Normandy or D-Day] in Saving Private Ryan), the director更是 tries his best to 营造achieve a true ambiance [The last three words sound really strange] (气氛，氛围 ). A journalist asked Spielberg a question: ‘Will you let your daughter see the first thirty minutes of Saving Soldier Ran?’ ‘ No,’ he said, ‘ I know that scene is bloody, but I have to direct like this.（但是我必须这么拍）, because it is history.’
I like the words he said[I like what he said]. That is one reason I like him besides the(scene with) bike crossing the moon in E.T.. A director can change the history(story) if he is directing a legend[Try "if what he directs is fiction"], but the story he is trying to tell is historical fact, he’d better say a satisfactory (圆满的) story[Try "he should strive for historical accuracy"]. We can stand (that) there are one hundred and three mistakes in the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring, but a historical story with 50 mistakes is too bad. （这句……很拗口……）
I believe that Spielberg trie(s) to show us the truth in Amistad, and there are many scenes described the extremely tragic torture of slaves [Just saying 'slaves' is fine here] that leaded the movie rated R[Try "that gave the movie an R rating].（这导致了电影被分到R级） But when Cinque (the main actor , the leader of slavers) shouts ‘Give us free!’[Does he really say this? Give us freedom would sound better] in the count, I can’t cover up my disgusted[I could not conceal my disgust]. Especially when he repeated it again and again, the word was more and more smooth[smoother and smoother], which I believe is one of the 煽情点 that Spielberg set. I felt that I would not continue watch it were it not one of my lessons. （这句是虚拟语气来的……我知道我的虚拟语气很差……）
I can not believe a slave could learn English in a few days without having previous contact with whites. I can not believe he could speak the words with correct grammar（哼，我都不可以呢）. I can not believe he spoke louder and louder was because he confirmed his words were right----did he know what he was saying?[This sentence is wierd]
Too artificial（做作）.
What’s more[I think this is too colloquial] , Cinque even reads the Bible with his smart companion, even though they were just looking at the pictures (thank god, that’s an illustration one<这是个插图本>){This sentence probably should not be in the paper}, it still made me uncomfortable. Too America（太大美国主义了）.[Try It is too American] It is like how the president gave a speech before the White House that was being rebuilt in Independence Day, or the Stars and Stripes waving in the end of the Spider Man. They are the myths made by Hollywood. Is Amistad a myth? No.
I am an atheist[Me, too.]; I can not feel how great the Gods are[In context this should be God is]. But it is hard to believe that two slaver had found that the country is not as bad as they thought, just because of the story of Jesus Christ. Their compatriots wouldn not come back even[if America were?] America is a heaven, and their lives are still in danger, how can they think like this?
Thought I don not like this movie very much, I still have to admit that this movie is still great. However, it shows us how cruel the slaves were treated. When we watched the movie, I could hear my classmates 倒吸一口凉气 or 发出惊叹 frequently[This sentence seems incomplete]. When Cinque was telling his ‘journal’, delete{the scene even made} they even cried out in a low voice. That is also the only scene made me shake. I know the slaves were very poor, but I did not know they were that poor.（我知道他们很可怜，但不知道他们居然痛苦至此。怎么用英文写出来感觉就全变了……） How could the western colonists, the slaver traders（我想说的是奴隶贩子，但是这个好象是奴隶主） treat the blacks like something dead , even worse than a draught animal? The blacks are also as human the white. Why are their lives worthless?!
The ending of Amistad is 弥漫着悲伤. The slaves were judged innocent, and allowed to go back to their homeland, Cuba. At last, they sit in the head of the boat, facing east, the sun shining on their faces, reflect a 古铜色的光芒. Their eyes are full of hope. When everyone thought that was a happy ending, the subtitle told us that they could not find their families when they got home, they had disappeared, maybe they were caught and became slaves and were sent to other countries. Everyone in the classroom sighed deeply and sadly, including me.
They have no tomorrow at this period just because they are black. Some people say the world is fair, it takes something from you and gives you something back. But what do the blacks get? In the past, present, they still get the equal right to the white.{ I do not understand this sentence}
Everyone born and equal.（是这么说的么……） The Independent Declaration said. The ‘everyone’, including the black?（还是include？）[The Declaration of Independence says that all men are created equal.]
Everyone has his answer. Even you can define that black are equal to white in law（用法律来确定黑人和白人是平等的）, but the people’s idea won’t change easily.[This is not true. Under the current legal system Blacks are superior to Whites and Asians through affirmative action.] There are almost one hundred and fifty years since the civil war, [What does the War between the States (Civil War) have to do with this?] ,but a black Oscar best actor winner still is a rare thing.（一个黑人奥斯卡影帝仍然是一件稀罕物，我忘记最佳男主角怎么说了(Best Actor)……） I have a dream is still quoted in different conditions and works, but the Blacks are still treated with bias.
To you, can you answer ‘yes’ directly and firmly? [/QUOTE]
