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Where? Where does racism come from? How can one race feel superior to
another? Are we born with it? No. Do we become it on our own? Maybe? Or
is it perhaps that we are taught it? There is a small scene in Mississippi
Burning that is just as powerful as any Gene Hackman speech or any violent
montage to gospel music that is in this film. There is a rally at a park
with the head of the KKK ( without his hood ) telling thousands of people
that have gathered that he loves being white. He loves the fact that
Mississippi is segregated. And in the crowd the camera pans across and
shows three year old kids smiling and cheering as gleefully and loudly as
their parent's are. It is haunting.

This film is bit like JFK in a way. It is not an absolute recreation of the
events that took place in 1964, but it is a film that tells a true story and
then adds a bit of fiction to make it more interesting for a mass audience.
For example, the case was not cracked by Mr. Anderson fooling around with
Pell's wife. But that is besides the point, the point being that this film
is mesmerizing. Everything from its direction, cinematography, acting,
writing and music, it is the best film of 1988. And having Rain Man take
most of the major awards is really quite sad. Because Mississippi Burning
is much more ambitious, important and well done. Rain Man is a very good
film and I will even go as far as to say that Hoffman is the only one that
deserved to win best actor just as much as Hackman did. But 1988 was a bad
year for the rest of the Oscars. Anyway...

I have been edgy before. Boyz and the Hood did that to me, but this film
makes me angry. It makes me want to jump back into 1964 and try to do
something to stop this. The film is that strong at showing us how terrible
and pointless racism is. And in order to make this film work, there has to
be strong elements in all areas. But for me, what really made me feel the
things that I did is the actors that played their roles.

Hackman is brilliant. He gives the performance of a lifetime and it is his
anger that gives him his edge. He sees things differently than Mr. Ward
does and that sometimes makes them bump heads with each other. But they
ultimately have the same goal in mind. Just different ways of achieving
that goal. Dafoe is great as well, but it is the supporting cast that
really makes this film. From Dourif to R. Lee Ermey to Stephen Tobolwolski,
these characters are richly portrayed by the actors that play them. There
is however one actor in particular that I wanted to touch on and that is
Michael Rooker. He plays Frank, the nastiest, meanest, no conscience, negro
hating person that I think I have ever seen on film. I don't know where his
anger comes from, but he is the kind of character that you can imagine had a
violent father that drank too much and always told stories about how bad the
black man was. When Rooker is on screen you listen. You pay attention to
what he is saying and doing. And my hatred of him was one of my favourite
parts of the film.

Mississippi Burning shows us how strange people are when it comes to racism.
The characters in this film don't know why they hate the way they do, they
just know that they do. And they are powerless to stop themselves. What
happened to the three civil rights workers was a disgrace and a tragedy.
But not just because three boys were murdered, but because no one knows why
they were murdered,besides racism that is. Why did they have to die?
Because they were a different colour of skin? Because they were Jewish? It
really doesn't make any sense.

Mississippi Burning is one of the best films I have ever seen. It is
important and it is entertaining. If you haven't seen it, do so just for
the scene with Mr. Anderson and Deputy Pell at the barber shop. That is
worth the price of the rental alone. But for a really important film that
has something to say, this is one of the best..

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Excelente vision de los acontecimiento ocurrridos en la década de 1960 en Mississipi; la supuesta supremacia blanca en peligro.

brilliant moview........!! .

Mississippi Burning captures the American South of the 1960s and its turbulent race relations by telling a story that, while technically fictional, is inspired by actual events that took place. It succeeds by all at once being gripping, emotional, and contemplative. Despite being made in 1988 and taking place in 1964, the film holds up to this day quite well. .

Her Birthday is great This one too.

This movie shows the racism against people in the south!.

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A fairly gripping based-in-reality drama set in the Deep South at the
height of the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Parker's clearly made a
saddened polemic about the blatant and brutal inequities of the period.
He's constructive in his tub-thumping though: there are a fair few
shades of grey in the mix and the hectoring Mississippi whites are 3-
dimensional and give conviction to their (often flawed)
counterarguments for de-segregation.

Actually, it's very easy to forget that for all that this is a social
drama, it has a straightforward whodunnit at its centre. Willem Dafoe
and Gene Hackman are a standard, if not classic procedural good cop/bad
cop outfit. Both actors are good: perhaps Hackman is phoning in corners
occasionally and Dafoe is a bit over-preppy, but they're well-cast.
There's a pool of spittling, buzz-cut racists who are effective, from
the sly Brad Dourif (he reprises the trick in LotR The Two Towers) to
the thuggish Michael Rooker. The black cast is fairly anonymous, with
the exception of the steely youthful Aaron Williams, played with
frightened righteous anger by Darius McCrary. The emotionally
transformative part is played by Frances McDormand's cul-de-sac'd wife
of the insidious Deputy Pell, an early role for this Oscar-winning
actress, and played with at least the authority of the male leads.

I liked the pace, the detail - the heat and poverty, the honesty. It's
quite a violent movie and perhaps that's as needs be. 7/10.