Review of Selma (2014) by Wayne M — 22 Feb 2015
Selma is an essential film to see. Not because it is a great film, although it is very good, but because this is a subject that still totally deserves to have a light shine on it very brightly. Martin Luther King was an icon and a hero and David Oyelowo plays him with perfect dignity.
The film focuses on the march in Selma in 1965. All the main players are there, LBJ, George Wallace, Ralph Abernathy and the film really captures well in many powerful scenes the danger and emotion of the times.
A very fine film that sometimes falls in sentimentalism and the direction is well crafted rather than original, but it achieves its aims in spades.
This review of Selma (2014) was written by Wayne M on 22 Feb 2015.
Selma has generally received very positive reviews.
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