Review of Mississippi Burning (1988) by Tsukasa A — 15 Aug 2014

I think in this review of "Mississippi Burning," I need to be careful on what to say about it. To start off, it was well done and well made within its horrific atmosphere. The best of the picture next to karmas was the performances of Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe at their best. Their chemistry is quite similar to the chemistry between Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in "All the President's Men" when investigating for answers without receiving any cooperation but threats instead.

So to sum it up: "Mississippi Burning" is a well-done, brave dramatization with a horrific atmosphere, and the performances of its main duo lightens things up as they crack the corrupted Mississippi to sweat and weaken. (B+).

If you want to read more of the review, read further to get to the truth that's based on my opinion.

What makes this a brave dramatization directed by Alan Parker was the portrayal on how monstrous the white people were (*are if there are still some disgracing the race) at that time of the unreasonable segregation. My blood boils whenever I see a monstrous white mistreating, disrespecting and hurting an innocent a black person who doesn't deserve that.

To describe my daydreaming thoughts when I was watching this movie, I was imagining myself as Christopher Nolan's Batman protecting the black people and anyone from harm from monsters as the world is Gotham City and Mississippi is Arkham.

Now you see why I need to be careful on what I write or I'll probably be threatened like how Hackman's and Dafoe's characters were when they were digging deep into the mystery of the disappearance of three civil-rights workers. The investigation was pleasantly causing the monstrous whites to sweat from their skull(?), and weak enough to show that they're truly brainless monsters with no respect and that we're right about them being that way at that time whereas for unknown reason they'd turned into lazy chickens and started disrespecting the black people. Oops, this rebellious, expressionist white has said it already.

Last year with the releases of "42," "The Butler," "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" and the 2014 Best Picture winner "12 Years a Slave," I think I came across on an article that was about that the white people want these kind of productions to stop portraying their race as monsters. What I need to say about that is that these kind of movies were showing the world the truth dramatized. So it seems that the white people were getting shamed by what they've become and were given karma for what they've done (pretty sure karmas were given individually that's more than what the dramatizations were telling). So it seems that they've gave up when the truth was dramatized times before. It also seems that they want the truth buried so they can be forgiven and the past to be forgotten. (The whites I'm talking about are the monstrous ones in that era).