Mississippi Burning: Reaction paper

The 1988 film tells a pretendedization version of theinvestigation into the real-life murder of civil rights workers inMississippi in 1964. The film focuses on the two fictional FBIinvestigators who go to Mississippi to examine the murders. The FBIagents are portrayed as heroes who descend into this injustice in thehundreds, however in reality the real FBI agents and the justice section reluctantly protected the Civil Rights workers and theprotestors reportedly witnessed the beatings without interfering.Mississippi yearning claims to highlight the injustice ofsouthern society in 1964. The FBI agents are given the job toinvestigate the disappearance from a Mississippi town. It is made as apoint of fact that two of the men were white. The FBI agents, one aformer by-the-book Yankee unconquerable never to violate the rights of theinterrogated, the other agent, is a local man who has been tainted bythe South. He is a streetwise complex character who believes that tohandle Scum. You m ust(prenominal) sink to Gutter level.At first glance the audience recognizes these charactersbringing out the old buddy-buddy film formula however, the film expandsthis cinematic clich by becoming an ideological statement. MississippiBurning brings out the resistance of a Southern community to changefrom an old way of thinking at a time when anti-liberal values of asmall town in America still seem right when the Supreme Court ischipping away at the achievements of the 1960s. The films message isthat all these battles have to be fought again and much harder thanbefore at any cost for the lives of the men who were unjustly killed.Order31113448 Mississippi BurningPg.2The film like Birth a Nation, is stereotypical is historicallyinaccurate. Black men in Birth A Nation, are portrayed as shiftless,lazy, rapist, criminals whereas the nasty men in Mississippi Burningare seen as only mute victims. Southerners are portrayed as red-necked,ignorant, racists who are all members of the KLAN.The Klan is doing the church burnings, violate burnings, lynchingand murders of the three activists however, everyone does not want tospeak up because of fear of retribution from the KLAN and the mutualbigotry that is rampant in town. The KLAN is a major terrorist forcefulnessthat keeps the people in town quiet. The investigators become theembodiment of the conflict, which is the essence of the film. A dinerscene where the investigators enters an obvious segregated dinerquestion a down in the mouth kid who was brutally beaten up the KLAN. Another iswhen the investigators visit the Deputys wife in the hospital where itis found the KLAN beat her because she helped the FBI agents.The investigators end their personal differences to come togetheras a force at the end of the film to resolve the central problem.Anderson hires someone to get out important polar information fromthe Mayor of the town with threats of castration. The FBI agents createa mock execution to frighten the criminals i nto revealing the truth bychasing the deputy with a razor blade. The curse is resolved with allthe rednecks, the deputy and their co-conspirators sent to jail. TheFBI agents leave with a mutual understanding, which shows the strengthof the film. There isnt a sense that racism has been abolished andseems instead to be left with a sense of shifting despair and hope.-Works Sited-Mississippi Burning. Directed by Alan Parker, written by ChrisGerolmo, Crime Drama, 1988