Today released theatrically Selma , a biopic through which the director Ava DuVernay wished to return to a key moment in the journey of Martin Luther King: The long march peacefully conducted for equal rights 1965. A strong and rewarding film that will not leave you indifferent.
This is the first time since the assassination of Martin Luther King , 4 April 1968 that his story is brought to the big screen. Or rather a part of its history. That of his fight for the right to vote be accorded to black Americans citizens. That of the violent clashes in Alabama in the mid-60s, and that long walk, between the cities of Selma and Montgomery after which President Lyndon Johnson finally agreed to change the law to guarantee equal rights.
“We tend to associate Martin Luther King statue, a speech, a holiday, forgetting that it was primarily a complex man, murdered 39 years after fighting for the freedoms we all enjoy today, “, says the director Ava DuVernay ” Behind the myth, there is a strength of character that everyone can find in itself. “
For beyond the icon, Martin Luther King was first a father and a husband, who had also its weaknesses. “Ordinary Hero” , as we wanted to show Ava DuVernay and that Oprah Winfrey , producer of the feature film. It appears there also under the Annie Lee Cooper features, a known activist for opposing white Sheriff Jim Clark during 1965. movements
The viewer finds himself in the privacy of the pastor superbly played by David Oyelowo Preview in The Butler, but discovered or rediscovered, a violence that is nevertheless difficult to imagine. During the session, a question never leaves our minds: “How is that possible?”
The scenes filmed by Ava DuVernay then mixed with archive footage that support a little harsh reality of this biopic.
Named (only ) twice at the Oscars 2015, Selma will leave only with the award for best song. Performed by John Legend and Common, “Glory” made the audience cry Dolby Theatre on February 22 and comes fully close this magnificent film that 50 years after the fact, is in reality could not be more topical. To see, absolutely
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