This movie is quite unrealistic, although it portrayed a very important point that the racial discrimination was very evident yet not much people seems to care about it, as if it was normal, even the mayor did not do anything about it. It did showed how the whites in Mississippi discriminated the blacks. It showed how merciless and evil the whites were, they killed people without regret, and also without reason. It also showed how the community separated the black from the white, let the white have authority over the blacks.
However, this movie only portrayed part of the truth, as the whole movie only showed white men doing wrong things, like killing people, but all the black seem to be good people, that never committed any crime at all, which is impossible, thus they purposely only showed how bad the whites are, and showed the blacks are angels. This is a irony, as it is suppose to be telling people discrimination and racism is not good,as it sheds blood, but it seems to be racist against the whites, saying that they are evil people, which seems to contradict each other, thus it is quite unrealistic
I am not sure how the mayor really felt in the story, but he either couldn't be bothered or he was afraid of the KKK as much as the Blacks do. As for the part whereby Whites are shown as evil people whereas Blacks are shown as angels, I agree with you and I think that is simply unrealistic as well, but after all, its just a movie.
ReplyDelete(By the way, the title of the movie is Mississippi Burning, not Burning Mississippi.)