The film I have chosen to talk about is titled, “A Time to Kill” and its setting is placed in the rural south. Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) is the father of a little girl who is violently beaten and raped by two white supremacists. Carl, in an effort to get justice for his daughter, contacts a lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to see what can be done about this horrible offense. Jake informs Carl that the two offenders might possibly walk away from this incident as free men. In an act of fatherly rage Carl decides to take matters into his own hands and seek revenge for his daughter.
In a fit of rage, Carl proceeds to the county courthouse, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, and opens fire killing the two rapists and injuring …show more content…
Now, our text says, “Racial discrimination is unacceptable, no matter who expresses it”*. Racial discrimination is merely a perceived sense of superiority over a specific race, and this is due nothing more than ignorance towards a different cultural background.
“A Time to Kill” is illustrating to its viewers the perceived difficulties of being a “Black American” in the southern states. However, the film plays to our emotions as parents by having a little black girl raped by two “white” men, which causes a huge uproar in the small town. Carl, the father of the little girl, killed the two men and wounded a deputy because he feared the two men were going to walk away as “free men”. After this act, Carl was arrested and the district attorney over the case is trying for death penalty, and in my opinion the death penalty was sought because of the interracial …show more content…
Throughout the entirety of the movie, there were multiple instances of violence and racism coming from different white supremacist groups seeking justice for the gun down men. For example, during the trial a fight broke out between the local black community and the KKK. This fight resulted in many individuals, both white and black, becoming injured in the unruly brawl outside of the court house. However, the brawl also shows Jake rushing into the brawl risking his life to save a black guard from being beat to death by a KKK
In a fit of rage, Carl proceeds to the county courthouse, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, and opens fire killing the two rapists and injuring …show more content…
Now, our text says, “Racial discrimination is unacceptable, no matter who expresses it”*. Racial discrimination is merely a perceived sense of superiority over a specific race, and this is due nothing more than ignorance towards a different cultural background.
“A Time to Kill” is illustrating to its viewers the perceived difficulties of being a “Black American” in the southern states. However, the film plays to our emotions as parents by having a little black girl raped by two “white” men, which causes a huge uproar in the small town. Carl, the father of the little girl, killed the two men and wounded a deputy because he feared the two men were going to walk away as “free men”. After this act, Carl was arrested and the district attorney over the case is trying for death penalty, and in my opinion the death penalty was sought because of the interracial …show more content…
Throughout the entirety of the movie, there were multiple instances of violence and racism coming from different white supremacist groups seeking justice for the gun down men. For example, during the trial a fight broke out between the local black community and the KKK. This fight resulted in many individuals, both white and black, becoming injured in the unruly brawl outside of the court house. However, the brawl also shows Jake rushing into the brawl risking his life to save a black guard from being beat to death by a KKK