Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Mississippi Burning
Basically, I do not really like this movie that much. Firstly, it is due to the racial discrimination, segregation, and even the private sentences by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) like lynching. The discrimination is seriously too devastating even when one thinks about it. There were also many scenes in which people are beaten up badly, killed in various methods, killed by guns, killed by lynching or even killed after being beaten up seriously from grave injuries. The shot at the person's head just at the start of the movie was quite disturbing for me as some of the blood splattered on the faces of those in the car, who were then all killed as well. The lynching was indeed a very cruel way to end one's life, just imagine one day if your parent wakes you up can tells you to bring your siblings and run away, and when you return, the body of your parent is hung up on a tree. It would not look nice, thinking of it sends a shiver down my spine, still. The part when an FBI agent went to tell the mayor about the boy whose scrotum got cut off, just by hearing it makes one feel sick, luckily, the scene of it was not shown in the movie. The movie is good for educating children about racism, but I hope that there will be a censored version, which is less disturbing.
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I think that a censored version of the movie will not achieve the desired outcome as well. This movie purposefully defamed the Whites in order to gain empathy for the racially discriminated Afro-Americans. The outcome is that the message of racial discrimination is brought across more apparently. Thus, a censored version will not achieve such a good effect.
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