Selma appeared in time and brought us back to the era when media technology was just starting on the big screen, an era in which people risked their lives to take to the streets. It tells the story of MLK's front and backstage efforts in order to call on Congress to pass a bill to protect black voting rights. From a young age, it also addressed some key parties in the incident-MLK and his wife, President LBJ, Governor George Wallace of Alabama. At that time, the current MP John Lewis who paraded with MLK and so on-focused, not only showed the big scenes of speeches, demonstrations, and brutal police suppression, but also very vividly portrayed the various parties with different positions (MLK's Political disputes between the non-violent movement, the student leaders, the violent resistance group led by Malcolm X, the White House of LBJ, the GW of Alabama and the sheriff of Selma). This movie is very exciting. When I entered the cinema, my eyes were very tired. After I entered the cinema, I realized that I bought the second row of IMAX. Fortunately, the cinema is very user-friendly. The second row is far away from the screen. The tails are all attractive, and the tears make the eyes more comfortable, and I am not tired at all looking at it.
The cast of the whole movie is actually very powerful, but it came to the American public quietly.
David Oyelowo plays MLK, so I can't remember the appearance and conversation of the real MLK for a while. He didn't copy MLK in detail, but the appeal and momentum in his speech all had the soul of MLK, and it also made me hear the anger that I hadn't noticed before. In some off-stage scenes, his handling of small details is also very realistic, making MLK a vivid person, instead of staying in the impression of being tall.
George Wallace turned out to be played by Tim Roth. I was a little surprised at first, but he played the hatefulness of this character very successfully. His lines are also very good, and some ridiculous lines make people laugh.
This version of LBJ played by Tom Wilkinson is also very good. The movie portrays President LBJ as one of the obstacles in the advancement of the bill: the right to vote in the movie is not his primary political issue and goal. He feels that MLK's movement hinders his agenda, which is due to MLK's constant criticism and encouragement. Xia Cai finally gave a speech to support him. This may not be in line with historical facts. I think that if LBJ can be more actively involved in the script, the significance of the movie may be even greater, especially when there are cracks in the ethnic integration today. But the script is forgiven for creating momentum. In any case, Wilkinson did an excellent job of playing this version of the president, showing the funny side of LBJ's swear words, his political stance and his headaches about legislative dilemmas. After reading it, I didn't feel that LBJ didn't want to legislate, because he really didn't have enough chips, and in the end MLK gave him more chips.
The performances of the little supporting actors are also very good. The producer Oprah plays a little character who doesn't want to vote but can't vote. The first scene she appeared in was very moving from nervous to angry. There are big names who play small supporting roles (for example, Cuba Gooding Jr. plays a lawyer who only has two scenes, Martin Sheen also only plays a judge who appears in those two scenes, Dylan Baker plays J. Edgar Hoover, and Rapper Common, The Wire's Wendell Pierce, etc.), there are also small names (Marmen Ejogo as MLK's wife Correta, Stephan James as the current MP John Lewis, and Short Term 12's Keith Stanfield as Jimmie Lee Jackson). The performances of all these people deserve respect.
The film is full of emotions, if you don't resist, two lines of tears are inevitable. But at the same time, the script also has some lines and plots that make people laugh, and sometimes I laugh before my tears are dry. The moving that the film excites transcends race, because the film neither bows excessively to liberal whites nor ignores the power of transcending beliefs. It is not only the big scene of speech and oppression, but also the sadness, fear, anger, determination, and determination of the characters in the film. It makes people feel the yearning for freedom and equality. , The despair and resistance to unreasonable power, the reflection on reality, and the sharing of beliefs and mutual spiritual embrace with the characters on the screen and the audience around him. Although in a few scenes the old problem of using music to tell you how to feel is committed, the audience still has uncooked and naked emotional feedback. This is not only a very successful film that motivates liberals and angers racist people, it is also a purely good film.
Those who said that Fruitvale Station is a liberal propaganda, some of them may not spare this film. But they ignored what Fruitvale was going to talk about and what this film was going to talk about. Some people have been abroad for a few years and listened to the arguments of some U.S. extreme rightists, and felt that they could just support their own prejudices and fears, so they immediately adopted and armed themselves, and they would go wherever they could be. Now this kind of behavior is no longer new, it has made people feel boring.
The screening I went to was very interesting. There were mostly blacks, and there were also whites. There were also many Asians like me. I didn't hear the first sentence of the movie, because the little black girl sitting in the first row in front of me couldn't restrain herself and laughed. Unless an old grandfather who just came in sits on her lap in the dark, I can't think of any reason for her to laugh like this. The moment Tim Roth appeared in the movie, she burst into a weird laugh again, seemingly out of breath. I don’t know this girl, so let’s think of her as a so-called unhelpful teammate, the kind of teammate who provides excuses for racial discrimination, but in fact, we can find this kind of teammate in every kind of group. When she laughed for the second time, an old man in front of me rushed to her, pointed at her and said, "Miss, I have waited for decades to watch this movie. You'd better give it to me. Be quiet" and immediately told her to shut up. At the end of the film, with Common and John Legend’s new song Glory (Ferguson is also mentioned in the lyrics), the old man raised his arm and raised his left fist. After the end, he stood up and chanted to the audience: "Remember Michael Brown, remember Eric Garner, we The parade is not over yet!" I don’t know this old man, but I want to believe that he represents a certain kind of backbone, and any group needs this kind of backbone.
What the film wants you to do is actually very simple, and it repeats what To Kill A Mockingbird told you decades ago:
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. …You have to wear her skin and walk twice.)
Compassion and empathy-this is what the movie makes us hug. Because sometimes, the nonsensical truth in the movie The Interview is applied-"They Hate Us'Cuz They Ain't Us. (They hate us because they are not us)."
This truth has been said for decades, but still Need to say, it shows that there is a necessity for the existence of Selma.
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