Amistad (1997)
Razaaq Adoti: Yamba
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Quotes
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Yamba : [looking at a Bible]
Joseph Cinque : You don't have to pretend to be interested in that. Nobody's watching but me.
Yamba : I'm not pretending. I'm beginning to understand it.
[outside, a priest blesses himself]
Yamba : Their people have suffered more than ours. Their lives were full of suffering.
[turns to a picture of the newborn Jesus Christ]
Yamba : Then he was born, and everything changed.
Joseph Cinque : Who is he?
Yamba : I don't know, but everywhere he goes he is followed by the sun.
[turns to a picture of Jesus healing a man]
Yamba : Here he is healing people with his hands...
[shows Jesus defending Mary Magdalene]
Yamba : protecting them...
[shows Jesus and the children]
Yamba : being given children...
Joseph Cinque : [sees Jesus walking on water] What's this?
Yamba : He could also walk across the sea. But then something happened. He was captured, accused of some sort of crime.
[shows Jesus with Pontius Pilate]
Yamba : Here he is with his hands tied.
Joseph Cinque : He must have done something.
Yamba : Why? What did we do? Whatever it was, it was serious enough to kill him for it. Do you want to see how they killed him?
[shows the crucifixion of Jesus]
Joseph Cinque : This is just a story, Yamba.
Yamba : But look, that's not the end of it.
[shows the disciples taking Jesus' body down]
Yamba : His people took his body down from this... thing... this...
[signs the cross in the air]
Yamba : They took him into a cave. They wrapped him in a cloth, like we do.
[shows the Resurrection of Jesus]
Yamba : They thought he was dead, but he appeared before his people again and spoke to them. Then, finally, he rose into the sky.
[shows the Ascension of Jesus]
Yamba : [the priest prays in the background]
Yamba : This is where the soul goes when you die.
[shows a picture of Heaven in the clouds]
Yamba : This is where we're going when they kill us. It doesn't look so bad...
