A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill which was based on a novel written by Grisham, it was released in 1996 and directed by Joel Schumer. This movie shows a struggling black man in a racially charged court room drama. Carl Lee Hailey, played by Samuel L. Jackson murders the two men who rapes and beats his ten year old Tanya, and then leaves her for dead, and then defended by a white local lawyer, Jake Brigance played by Matthew McConaughey. The movie begins with two drunken men driving through a poor black community in Mississippi, as they continue to drive they shout and taunt innocent African American by standers on the road. In the beginning of the movie the editor cuts in and out between the two drunken men driving and the little girl (Tanya) at the local grocery store. I think this is a very good start it shows the differences between the two things we’re dealing with, innocence represented by the girl and the evil and racism represented by the two drunken racists. Shortly after the two men pickup the girl and brutally rape and beat her. There is a very interesting seen when the sheriff goes to arrest the two men in a local bar, the sheriff who was black was also antagonized with racial slurs and demeaning manor.
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Approximate Word count = 948
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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