Mississippi Burning 4K 1988 Ultra HD 2160p

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Mississippi, 1964. The murder of three human rights activists raises a wave of riots. It is up to FBI agents Anderson and Ward to find the perpetrators. The wife of a local sheriff's deputy, involved in the investigation of the case, discovers a secret that casts a shadow on the main people in town, making those involved in a bloody conspiracy. But that doesn't stop Anderson, an agent with years of experience. He knows that sometimes the law must be broken to achieve a goal, or the killers will remain at large.

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On June 21, 1964, three activists of the American Civil Rights Movement disappeared in Mississippi. Two Jews, one Negro, advocating for equal rights for all in the American South, angered by the repeal of Jim Crow laws. Agent Rupert Anderson (Gene Hackman) is right that the “goons from Washington” sent the boys to their deaths, and even in such a national cast. And while, Agent Alan Ward (Willem Defoe) believes there are things worth dying for, the state of Mississippi believes there are things worth killing for. It's the first half of the 1960s, the Civil War between the North and South ended 100 years ago, people are in space, Africa is celebrating independence, and here's Uncle Tom's Cabin mixed with Huckleberry Finn and Ku Klux Klan members driving around in cars with Confederate flags. The dusty, hot, swampy South. Such is the American village, with rusty pickup trucks, cheapness and almost subsistence farming. They reconstructed and reconstructed the American South, but never fully reconstructed it.

“Mississippi Burning is a good and useful movie. Good in that it's beautifully shot and has great actors. Useful in that it shows quite vividly the degree of heat of the interracial question in the south of the USA, at a time when these very racial contradictions were trying to be settled somehow. Many young people who cringe at the word “political correctness” and talk about the “black supremacy” in Hollywood, it would be good to familiarize themselves with one of the manifestations of this issue, where all this “political correctness” and “white guilt” grew from, even if from watching a feature film. Parker's film turned out to be one-sided, propagandistic, in such a leftist-liberal way. Heroes of the picture, time and again tears down to denunciatory pathos in relation to the Southerners, just that they do not look at the camera when they say something like: “how people can be like this”, “what is happening to these people”, “hatred in us are brought up from childhood”, “we are all to blame for what happened here”. But it should be noted that you still feel sympathy for the director's position, no matter how he tries to manipulate the viewer, creating in him a rather one-sided opinion, painting a poster: either black or white. You feel sympathy, because it is difficult to understand and explain all these sectarian “Ku Klux Klan” games from the position of sanity and common sense. Perefraziruya known povoroku: not so much not so much as to love, how much racist abhorrence. The movie caused a lot of controversy in its time with its one-sided position. The film did not pretend to be an accurate historical reconstruction, however, the similarity of the place of action, details, characters very similar to real people - all this gave rise to a lot of criticism, which except for “ritual” accusations of fictionalization of history and “whitewashing” of Negroes (they were not so harmless and beaten), could not object to anything in substance. The plaque “colored only” alanker parker that whether, invented and all over yugu divorced.

The wonderful acting ensemble of this tape, should be mentioned with a kind word. The main show, of course, gives Gene Hackman, whose Rupert Anderson, very, very much like the mad Jimmy Doyle from “The French Connection”, only aged and became more caustic in the service of Edgar Hoover. He kind of sympathizes with, but understands these nice country boys from the Mississippi countryside, as they are very familiar to him from the sheriff's work, but in the end, with their impenetrable stupidity and hyena-like malice, they make him mad. “Men in Black” under the command of Willem Dafoe as Agent Ward, do their job methodically and meticulously, but they do not have ‘methods against Kostya Saprykin’, but they have them in Zheglov-Anderson, in whose team even the future ‘Saw’ found a place, that is, the actor Tobin Bell. Just the hero Dafoe and turned out to be the most posterized by Alan Parker: the liberal position of the authors of the movie, through him and broadcasts. Frances McDormand is surprisingly sweet as the hapless Southerner - in fact, this is her first breakthrough role that made her famous. Brad Dourif is habitually nasty, not only in appearance but also with his character. Overall, everyone is good, which is a definite credit to the director.

An iconic and sensational movie for its time, which is good to see right now. Although its probably any time useful watch. It is an artistic movie. Perhaps even too artistic, but it makes you think about many things and asks you not to forget.