Selma (2014): a thoughts by minutes review
Selma shows us the incredible true chronicles of the three-month period in 1965, in which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. headed a march that would secure the rights to vote despite a violent opposition. The great walk started from Selma and ended all the way to Montgomery in Alabama.
The marches were initiated by James Bevel, led by Martin, Hosea Williams, and John Lewis, we see the struggle to make the march succeed as well as the resistance that came from political, emotional, and violent relations from President Lyndon, his wife Coretta, and the antagonistic Governor George Wallace.
Our characters push to gain the rights to equal vote in a battle against discrimination in which peaceful protest is their one and last line of defense against police and citizen brutalities.
Ava Duvernay sits on the director/producer chair coming fresh from the movie “Middle of Nowhere” which did not have a lot of impact back then but had a warm reception. She has since directed the miniseries “When They See Us” which was critically acclaimed, and I would deeply recommend, which makes this movie special because it is a combination of things, she is best at (stories about discrimination) and inexperienced at (theater films), having most of her good work as a TV director/producer.
