By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bill Guttentag | Dan Sturman
Country: france, united_kingdom, united_states
Year: 2010
Running time: 82
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1358885/
Thom says: “I was all set to watch this out of obligation. Not that I haven’t been a strong advocate my entire life of universal acceptance and love but this was a story I’m intimately familiar with because of demonstrating and resolve. I also wrote two essays for my MLIS degree on this very subject so I expected nothing new but I was once again overtaken with our society’s eternal shame for treatment of all people of different color and persuasion. I ask myself, how can any people live with such hatred, but they have done so forever and ever, with no end in sight. There have been improvements and to see once again this glorious movement taking hold though pictures, speeches, songs, newsreels, television clips, &video images is so moving that I swept into involvement. So embarrassed that one of the main villains was the Police Chief of Birmingham, the city I was born in. Thorough and exciting. The film goes from Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat, on through the marches in Alabama and elsewhere, and the reign of the great Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and his assassination in Nashville. 4 cats ”