Movies: Review 5# : Selma

Directed by: Ava DuVernay Written By: Paul Webb

Release Year: 2014 

Rating 7.5/10

So another hot topic coming up on my reviews. This time it`s a chronicle movie about Martin Luther King and his march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama back in 1965. While he was peacefully protesting for equal voting rights.

DuVernay not being new to the business, but creating a very powerful picture, after being a big part in many production and promotional services proofs that this too can help. I think the way the movie was shot is incredible talented, and I am looking forward to seeing more of her work after this. To mention David Oyelowo is a must. His portrait of King is honestly one of the best I have seen in history, especially when focusing on his speeches of King.

Starting with movements in Selma, the involvment of Malcom X as well as the the demands on both sides are extreme, state troopers attacking the group of black people, trying to pass the Edmund Pettus Bridge, has later big impact on the history as we all know. Alabama Govenor Wallace speaking out against the movement as well as ruling out the possibility of the voting rights is now impossible to picture, maybe also the part of the preseident, who is pictured as the nice man in the end, as he , comes the second protest march, after so many more peaceful commitments of King, agrees to let black people equally vote. I think the movie shows in little detail, wha sacrifices every one made, King as well as his friends, who only wanted to vote equally. It was little time later, when Luther was shot, yet he lived long enough to see his work finished.

I think its not much of a spoiler of what happened, yet its very gripping and powerful to see how much power other people can falsely gain, to limit others.

I think this is/or will be one of the better movies in 2015, not only because of the storyline, but also about the power the movies has in his graphic and very well directed image.

Something to consider watching , B