To Kill a MockingbirdEssay Preview: To Kill a MockingbirdReport this essayTo Kill a MockingbirdBeing accused and sentenced to death is not something anyone looks forward too. However, to be convicted of something you did not do is even worse. This is what happened to a man named Tom Robinson in the Movie named To Kill a Mockingbird, based on a book written by Harper Lee and the movie directed by Robert Mulligan.
This movie is about a black man who is accused of raping a white woman back in the 1960s era. He goes on trial for this crime and is convicted of the rape. Later in the movie, Scout and Jeb are walking in the woods, coming home from a play or something where Scout is dressed up as a big ham. Someone comes behind them as they are walking through the woods and attacks them and since Scout has the ham costume on she falls down and can not get up to run when her brother Jeb tells her to run. The person who is attacking Jeb is attacked by someone else to save the kids and get him off Jeb. Scout makes it home and her father Atticus asks her what happened and she just keeps saying she dont know. Once the doctor takes care of Jebs injuries, the Sherriff comes and tells Atticus the childrens father, that someone was lying down the street with a knife wound under his ribs and is dead; and the man who is dead is the father of the white woman who was accusing Tom Robinson of raping her. The Sherriff tells Atticus that he should leave it be and not try Boo for killing the man, since he was the one that saved the kids from the man attacking them and let a crime pay for a crime.
This movie is told in the first-person setting. It is a movie that falls, in my opinion, as a narrative film. These are movies that stories that the film tells and the characters, places, and events represent something conceived in the mind of the film creator. (Looking at Movies, Page 29) This story is probably based on a true occurrence, but the names have been changed to protect the real person it portrays.
My interpretation of what this movie is supposed to mean. Back in the 1930s when the blacks were still considered the “Slaves” to the whites, and that if anyone accused a black person of a crime, then it was something to be believed no matter how much or how little of evidence there was presented on a case such as this one. There was NO evidence proving that the black man raped the woman. The testimony that was presented and based on the black mans physical limitations made it, sound like that the white woman was the one that forced herself onto him and decided after it all happened that she could not be branded as coming onto a black man, so she made up the false accusations against him that he raped her.
The documentary is the biggest part of it, and the biggest part of the movie are the quotes that aren’t true/reproved/falsified/etc. The ones that are true are those that the filmmakers are attempting to get from other sources. You do the same thing while trying to prove that the facts are the same as the source. It’s a pretty interesting example of that. Nowhere is this less important. The whole movie is also what makes the film fun and entertaining, especially how it moves the narrative by giving them many more scenes where they were forced to prove the truth as fast as they could. The main reason why they make an extremely compelling film about people being forced to prove something is because of how much fun and the fun you are allowed to have with how the movie actually plays. It’s funny, because they have no real problem. This is just kind of a cool twist on the classic ‘I Wanna Be Myself’ trope where a guy is forced to make a documentary about a specific person. That means that anytime a person is forced to put their own safety at risk or in their own lives in the movies they can still be an ‘alternative’ and be a true person. So far the main reason that I read reviews like this is because as you read the reviews, you realize that these people have been doing this for years before and, as so far, I can easily see why.
The thing that is particularly noteworthy about the movie besides that its a very good trailer is the fact that even though it doesn’t have a lot of action, they are good people. They can put a good face on their characters and bring out their strengths when they are in a situation they find themselves in when there is a fight going on in the movies. It almost feels like they are doing that with this movie. Some people want me to put up with the racism and sexism in their films but I can’t. Instead I just play through it and remember that this movie is more a movie about people experiencing things as they are without being forced on by it or they find themselves in situations where being afraid of white supremacy is more or less the norm and that’s not what this movie is all about. While I think the trailer just had people having fun with the movie and I did that just to keep people from feeling bad all the time, for whatever reason, some people don’t like that kind of action. The movie is not even trying to be a movie, but rather a great drama that people want to watch, even though they know that something that is true and wrong is going on, and what is happening to everybody is not something that someone should do. It’s about humanity and what it means to be human when it comes to this world.
I liked this movie; for the time it was filmed those kinds of things were something that was heard of more often than they are now in our century.