Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Burning Mississippi

I've watched a movie recently, Burning Mississippi (spelled like that?) and it did a great impact in my life. This movie was about racism in Mississippi, and it was based on a real story. It was during a 60s, when the Ku Klux Klan - KKK (weird name) was formed and it had discriminate many blacks and did awful things to them. Finally, 2 FBI agents went to investigate: Mr. William (not sure) and Mr. Anderson. They had quite a distinct way of dealing with things, and they had encountered many challenges and conflicts in the way.
The blacks were unable to give the FBI agents information because of the fear of the KKK punishing them. Once the KKK had even burned down a church in front of their motel and shot their rooms, to show the FBI that they had the power and even the law could not control them.
When it seem hopeless, Mr. Anderson found a KKK member, however unable to catch him with not enough evidence.Fortunately, his wife can finally give in information after watching the black riots in the streets.Mr. Anderson wanted to use the violent matter to finish this tedious job, but Mr. Williams insisted to follow the normal method.Finally, after proving Williams wrong, Anderson used his way and had thought the KKK a lesson for being discriminating. Most of them were sentenced for years in jail, the mayor committed suicide.
Although there are some gory scenes, i felt that this movie had thought us to be against racism. The whites in the movie are very unfair towards the blacks for no particular reason. I also hope that racism would be lesser as time goes by, as this attitude is very unreasonable.

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