Review of Selma (2014) by Lasttimeisaw — 01 Sep 2015
An exceptional episode of the legendary activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s (Oyelowo) truncated 39-year-old life is finally brought up to the big screen by a female black director DuVernay, chronicles the historical voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, which pressures president Lyndon B.
Johnson (Wikinson), to pass the bill to eliminate restrictions on voting for black people. An Oscar BEST PICTURE nominee with only another nomination and final win for BEST ORIGINAL SONG (GLORY by Common and John Legend), to a great degree, is viewed being discriminatingly given the cold shoulder over other key nominations such as for Oyelowo’s leading actor and DuVernay in directing, a perennial disdain aiming at the senior-white-male demography in the academy.
Yet, Rome is not built in one day and for the elderly, it is ever harder to change their deep-rooted prejudice, so we need more patience.
This review of Selma (2014) was written by Lasttimeisaw on 01 Sep 2015.
Selma has generally received very positive reviews.
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