Friday, August 17, 2007

Amazing Grace.

I took a few hours off today and went to the cinema. I saw "Amazing Grace". It starred Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce who tirelessly campaigned for decades to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire. It also tells of his friend John Newton (Albert Finney), a former slave trader, who repented and turned to the church and who also wrote the beautiful song...Amazing Grace. I really enjoyed this moving film and there were a few moments where I thought I would really like to paint a portrait of Mr Gruffudd ....mmmmm....but...you just dont do that .....do ya?.....or do you?

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