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Selma Review Selma is a movie about Martin Luther King and his fight for complete voter rights for African Americans. The movie focuses around his time in Selma, Alabama and the plan to lead a march to the state capital, Montgomery Alabama. He visits Lyndon B. Johnson several times to lobby for a voting rights act that will abolish impediments African Americans face when they try to vote, e.g., literacy tests, voter id, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, intimidation, and violence. At first, LBJ tries to delay creating legislation because it isn’t the “correct political time” to create one. LBJ is forced to change his mind after King and his followers are repeatedly attacked by Alabama state troopers, it is televised nationally, as they try to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to go to Alabama. The film displays that America has improved a lot in regard to racial equality, but it still has a lot of work to do. By watching this film I was able to see the viewpoints of both sides and the effectiveness of MLK’s peaceful tactics. The movie was probably one of the most impactful movies that I have seen. It accurately displayed how poorly the African Americans were treated by the White people. The emotions displayed by the African Americans when they were harassed was remarkable; it really got too the heart. The scene in which the young man was shot in the restaurant almost made me cry. The movie accurately described the amount of force the police officers used against the African Americans; they didn’t overdo the blood or underdo the blows. One of the things the director (Ava DuVernay) does is he captures the film with a retro filter on his camera; the colors are very saturated. Doing this allows him to draw viewers back in time and also in to the film. I personally didn’t find anything wrong with the movie. One historical detail that many people are arguing about is the depiction of LBJ. Some say that in the movie he
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Selma is a movie about Martin Luther King and his fight for complete voter rights for African Americans. The movie focuses around his time in Selma, Alabama and the plan to lead a march to the state capital, Montgomery Alabama. He visits Lyndon B. Johnson several times to lobby for a voting rights act that will abolish impediments African Americans face when they try to vote, e.g., literacy tests, voter id, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, intimidation, and violence. At first, LBJ tries to delay creating legislation because it isnt the correct political time to create one. LBJ is forced to change his mind after King and his followers are repeatedly attacked by Alabama state troopers, it is televised nationally, as they try to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to go to Alabama. The film displays that America has improved a lot in regard to racial equality, but it still has a lot of work to do. By watching this film I was able to see the viewpoints of both sides and the effectiveness of MLKs peaceful tactics.
The movie was probably one of the most impactful movies that I have seen. It accurately displayed how poorly the African Americans were treated by the White people. The emotions displayed by the African Americans when they were harassed was remarkable; it really got too the heart. The scene in which the young man was shot in the restaurant almost made me cry. The movie accurately described the amount of force the police officers used against the African Americans; they didnt overdo the blood or underdo the blows. One of the things the director (Ava DuVernay) does is he captures the film with a retro filter on his camera; the colors are very saturated. Doing this allows him to draw viewers back in time and also in to the film.
I personally didnt find anything wrong with the movie.
One historical detail that many people are arguing about is the depiction of LBJ. Some say that in the movie he was depicted as a stubborn politician refusing to pass the Voting Rights Act. Some Historians and a former aide of LBJ are saying that he wanted to pass a bill from the beginning; he just wanted to wait longer than King.
