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.
I see the movie as any old movie, good or bad, but after being enlightened by all the critics and what to watch for I have changed my view. The general audience sees the movie as being very powerful and a good movie, I thought that myself. I agree like all the critics that we are blinded by the roles played Anthony Puccinelli of the Chicago Reader wrote a very intriguing review, one of the most interesting I have read. Puccinelli rated this film worth less with one star, on the basis that the film was stereotypical and over exaggerated. Puccinelli has many negative comments about "A Time to Kill", he refers to the movie as "a story of racial tension set in the south, the result is designer rage"(Puccinelli, pg.3). "A Time to Kill is ostensibly liberal because an African-American is fighting for his life against a racist judicial system in the ass-backward south". Many of the critics have responded in this way, they say that it has been a while since there has been an old fashioned liberal movie in Hollywood. Puccinelli is very sarcastic in his review, especially about Sandra Bullocks role as a rich law student and a free assistant to Jake Brigance, but Puccinelli feels that she "offers To help Jake For free services to show how good and strong Jake is for resisting such an attractive temptress and remaining faithful to his wife. Puccinelli makes very little reference to the acting, he feels that
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