Sumona Banerjee
Selma Film Review
The film Selma directed by Ava Duvernay chronicles the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It specifically focuses on the later part of the movement when African Americans were fighting for their voting rights. Although the history presented in this film is largely accurate and the majority of the characters are depicted well, it is slow at times and depicts Johnson in a false and biased manner.
Duvernay does an excellent job of incorporating different realms of the civil rights movement throughout the movie. While the three were all fighting for the same cause, the audience is able to see how Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and the SNCC affected each other. By including the major powers of the movement into one movie, it adds to the accuracy and allows the watcher to comprehend the intricacy of the situation as there were differing methods in dealing with the inequality. For example, the movie shows how the SNCC began as a nonviolent organization following King’s ideal while Malcolm X discouraged nonviolence and pushed blacks to physically defend themselves. Later in the movie, it is shown that the SNCC loses faith in the nonviolent approach and begins to apply more aggressive …show more content…
He is depicted as the villain of the movement even though this is not historically accurate. Under the Johnson administration, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed along with the Voting Rights Act. African Americans were also incorporated into his Great Society. Johnson is not given credit for this in the film and he is shown as more of a selfish than accepting president. At most parts, we see Johnson rejecting King’s proposals for the Voting Rights Act. Although this may have happened in history as it is difficult to pass a bill, in the movie Johnson doesn’t seem in support of the bill. He seems against the cause of the civil rights movement which is the opposite to what he stood for in real
Selma Film Review
The film Selma directed by Ava Duvernay chronicles the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It specifically focuses on the later part of the movement when African Americans were fighting for their voting rights. Although the history presented in this film is largely accurate and the majority of the characters are depicted well, it is slow at times and depicts Johnson in a false and biased manner.
Duvernay does an excellent job of incorporating different realms of the civil rights movement throughout the movie. While the three were all fighting for the same cause, the audience is able to see how Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and the SNCC affected each other. By including the major powers of the movement into one movie, it adds to the accuracy and allows the watcher to comprehend the intricacy of the situation as there were differing methods in dealing with the inequality. For example, the movie shows how the SNCC began as a nonviolent organization following King’s ideal while Malcolm X discouraged nonviolence and pushed blacks to physically defend themselves. Later in the movie, it is shown that the SNCC loses faith in the nonviolent approach and begins to apply more aggressive …show more content…
He is depicted as the villain of the movement even though this is not historically accurate. Under the Johnson administration, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed along with the Voting Rights Act. African Americans were also incorporated into his Great Society. Johnson is not given credit for this in the film and he is shown as more of a selfish than accepting president. At most parts, we see Johnson rejecting King’s proposals for the Voting Rights Act. Although this may have happened in history as it is difficult to pass a bill, in the movie Johnson doesn’t seem in support of the bill. He seems against the cause of the civil rights movement which is the opposite to what he stood for in real