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Selma (2014)

Drama | 128 minutes
3,39 570 votes

Genre: Drama / History

Duration: 128 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: Ava DuVernay

Stars: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson and Carmen Ejogo

IMDb score: 7,5 (98.697)

Releasedate: 25 December 2014

Selma plot

"One dream can change the world."

Selma tells the story of Martin Luther King who entered a historic struggle to guarantee the right to vote for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign with an epic protest march in Selma, Alabama, which eventually led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act by President Johnson in 1965.

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JJ_D

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A movie that kicks a conscience. With us, right. But also in the memory of Martin Luther King, right? For apparently Jonathan Safran Foer is right in "We Are the Weather"[/i] about what we might call revolutions or at least great historical upheavals: they must have a stage, a dramatic course, and a pioneer that embodies the whole effort. And thus?

So Selma became the perfect place for the next step in King's pursuit of equality. Ava DuVernay suggests that he knew there would be casualties, that he knew that the situation could spiral out of control, that he knew that the human consequences would be incalculable—and that he persevered, even explicitly chose just because of all this.

Which leads to the question: how many sacrifices is the greater good worth? And what does that willingness to sacrifice say about King, about his belief in what he was fighting for, about how important he thought himself, about how much he was already thinking about the history books? Not that there's a hint of cynicism blowing through 'Selma', certainly not. But the portrait does raise questions (and thus does not glorify in the classical American sense), and at the same time provides an insight into facts that we should know better.

Ah, harrowing. Knowing that the battle with narrow-mindedness, racism and inequality is far from over. How long? How long? Long?

4.25*

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IH88

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“Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.”

Excellent film by Ava DuVernay about Dr. Martin Luther King and his fight for equal rights. The film focuses on a certain period in King's life (a period of three months in 1965) and that is a choice that works out well.

King's fight in Alabama for equal suffrage for black Americans is interesting subject matter, and DuVernay portrays it all well. The film doesn't feel like a history lesson, but more like an exciting film with a socially critical message, and DuVernay deserves all the credit for the ingenious script and strong direction. Oyelowo is fantastic as King, and all the other actors are not inferior to him.

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mrklm

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Reconstructing the events that resulted in the legendary Selma March to Alabama in which the SCLC led by Martin Luther King supported the SNCC in their protracted struggle to end the sabotage of voting rights for black Americans in the Southern states. While King [David Oyelowo] is the central figure in this story, screenwriter Paul Webb makes sure to focus a lot of attention on the many other activists who played key roles, including Annie Lee Cooper [Oprah Winfrey], Jimmie Lee Jackson [LaKeith Stanfield], who fell victim to a police officer, but also Hosea Willams [Wendell Pieerce] and John Lewis [Stephen James], who led the first march, and white pastor James Reeb [Jeremy Strong] and his wife Marie [Elizabeth Diane Wells ]. Oyelowoh shines as King, perfectly embodying the flaws and insecurities that make it clear that King was not a myth, but a human being. Perfectly cast down to the smallest role, with a special mention to Henry G. Sanders as Cager Lee, who became the first man in his family to vote at the age of 84.

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