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![]() ![]() All the foreigners and citizens of other states who are not aware of those days - how can you comment on the film, except to give a critique ? Like many of the people who wrote commentaries, I can watch this film once-a-month. We didn't have this kind of racism in Biloxi then, perhaps because African-Americans "stayed in their place", a shameful statement if there ever were one. What? We are not talking about modern-day justice in this film - Shamefully, this is Mississippi at its worst, and I know about that. Canton - during the '60s - would have been just as it is portrayed in this film.īecause of the many TV-courtroom sitcoms, etc., today's population would wonder why there was no strongly-worded assurance the district attorney planned "to appeal". Today, can you believe, it is Vietnamese ! The city has also always been a tourist-area, and always had some form of gambling before it became The Las Vegas of the South - perhaps that has tempered the people there from the state's interior's citizens. In my youth, it was Czechs and other European races. That city has always been a melting-pot, so many different races live together. I am from Biloxi, Mississippi - along the Gulf Coast. There are prejudices much worse even now - I was amazed that one person actually compared this wonderful film to "Crash": give the world a break!! If "Crash".Ugh!.proved anything, is was to reassure EVERYONE racism is still America's cancer. My Friends, in the era this film is about, none of the story would be unusual. ![]() I had to stop reading the commentaries, because some people thought they were attorneys and rambled-on about injustice. Most important is that (for me) it worked. Also the plot is a bit contrived (but true to the novel). Bullock, there was a bit of woodeness to the "folk" in this small southern town. Which raises the main weakness of the movie, as good as it was, having read the book, I could not help being reminded that most of the characters were in fact, actors in a movie. Although the rest of the acting was very good, I felt she was the most believable. I think the acting of the principals was very good, and I found especially for Sandra Bullock as Ellen Roark - who was the most believable character. ![]() And by the end I understood that the screenwriter had very skillfully budgeted his (limited) screen time for the most important parts of the movie, where it is well spent. From the beginning I was thinking "they left out a whole mess of details." I was irritated that they did not develop the characters better like in the book.īut by the 3rd quarter of the movie this was the last thought in my mind. ![]() I was very much drawn into the book, and thought that it would be hard to get the same feeling out in a movie.Īt the beginning I thought I was right. ![]()
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