Review of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) by Kyle M — 15 Dec 2014

The courtroom scene is essentially the best, and most important, piece of the great film. The whole courtroom drama showcased the film's limited power that bring the viewer in the room and interacts with eyes-widening on the power and -rising on the effected while feeling the tense. The star Gregory Peck delivered a great performance, that'd won him Best Actor, for bringing such power while defending an accused, innocent black man and trying to break through the walls of ridiculous racism in a quiet tone. But the rules of such power applies: it'd limited his character's abilities that could've expand away from the courtroom. Although, he probably already knew about the rules and was just using such power try to create peace between men by communicating a hard message that black and white are equal. However, back to the applied rules of the power usage, there's a direction that'd pointed out the said limitation that'd went for the purpose of keeping the story going for the drama but there was enough power for an alternate direction that would've worked in a more satisfactory note and still provide the same outcome.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is definitely one of those great films that deserves its winning titles by the contained greatness energized by the nice performances and what they were able to deliver to the adapted storyline to showcase the film's excellency. (A-).

(Full review coming soon).