So why is this movie important. It is because the film Selma came out to the big pictures in a time where current events similarly mirror the events of Selma. Selma came out in December 2014, after the shooting of Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri in August, 2014. This led civil unrest in Ferguson, which included rioting, looting, vandalism and many other approaches. Police brutality however would not stop or get any better. In July of the same year, another African-American, Eric Garner, was choked to death by the police. There were many other police brutality victims since then. Many of these protests are organized by the Black Lives Matter Movement, which is an African-American movement that campaigns against violence and systemic
