Review of Selma (2014) by Nedryerson1 — 19 Feb 2015

Selma is the film that hopefully ends a trilogy about black men fighting for their rights, preceded by The Help and The Butler; except that for the grand finale they brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Hallelujah! Seems very interesting so far, the sad part is that the plot never puts aside propaganda, speech by speech the movie goes by, centered in just one moment of history: the march from Selma to Montgomery.

We barely notice the protagonist's family life, and that's it. Maybe if the director decided to add moments of his childhood or a teenage episode that changed his thoughts, even another event of this fight; the picture could have been more dynamic.

It really is very hard to follow, like a history class, you attend, try to pay attention, then surrender and at the end go home to realize you can't remember a thing.