France – Cinema Selma: the long march of Martin Luther King – Public Good

Of the two great leaders of the cause of blacks in America in the 1960s, it may seem surprising that the only one to have been entitled until this Hollywood consecration and the National blow what was the biopic Malcolm X .

To account for this eminently cleaving character, the film shot by Spike Lee kept a prickly side and firmly committed not always concern is to brush the hair.

This left Martin Luther King made him much more unanimity and his whole struggle animated by a spirit of peace will probably not require the same type of approach. In this sense, we can say that Ava DuVernay has pulled it off. His film and his character exclude any roughness

Both the private view – extramarital adventures of King pastor here presented beautifully elliptically – as politically – Opposition Malcolm X is also rapidly reduced to a kind of rallying otherwise, at least in extremis comprehensive acceptance of the latter against the good shepherd – the film clearly understood certainly remain a worthy subject but angélise suddenly a fight that was probably much more complex than it is said.

Fifty years later, it is true that the reality s’ fades and that the legend prevails. So it is, in the logic advocated John Ford, the latter which is favored here. By choosing the title of the film Selma, the iconic place where went the long march initiated by the pastor for recognition of the right to vote for blacks, the director intends primarily to show what was the great success, although concrete, Nobel Prize Peace: win the fight by other warlike weapons

David Oyelowo perfectly embodies this leader who, though sure of his fight, is not less subject to doubt and to. suffering. And the history of the long march and fought to defend the fundamental values ​​of the human in the story that is offered a useful educational value for the younger generations who do not know. And even for those who, knowing her today tend to forget it.

Selma biopic Ava DuVernay with David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmel Ejogo and Tim Roth ( US, 2 h 08).