The Long Walk Home
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Movie Reviews of The Long Walk Home
Movie Review: Good history lesson
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is first of all a good movie with fine acting. I also use it in the classroom to show 8th graders what was the situation in the South at the time of the famous Montgomery bus strike for African Americans. In addition I use the film to reflect what was the role of white women during that era. It shows the rise of both groups of women to be powerful forces.Movie Review: A Touching story
Summary: 4 Stars
The Long walk home was a very touching story about the discrimination against African Americans in 1955, as well as the Bus boycott which took place. This movie is an excellent depiction of the time period. While there is some harsh language, violence, and racial slurs, these three things really help to depict what the feelings towards the African Americans really were. This movie even shows how a person could be moved when they find out the situation of another person.
Another thing that was enjoyable about the movie was there was the absence of two prominent figures of the equality movement, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. This movie really helped to show the situation of the normal person, who had to go to work and church as well as take care of their family.
"The Long Walk Home" was a very good movie and was really moving. I would suggest it to everyone, especially because it shows what some people had to go through for their freedom.
Movie Review: THOUGHT PROVOKING DRAMA
Summary: 4 Stars
Earnest film chronicling the bus boycott in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama. Oscar winners Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg star as a well to do Southern socialite and her quite, but courageous maid. When Whoopi joins in the boycott against riding the buses, she finds herself walking to her job for Spacek three days a week with Sissy secretly "carrying" her the other two days. Sissy doesn't want her bigoted and politically motivated husband and his brother (Dwight Schultz and Dylan Baker, both very good) to find out. The movie is more an indictment against the racial prejudice of its times rather than a purely biographical flick, but director Richard Pearce wisely keeps the focus on his two leads who deliver outstandingly understated performances. A good movie to remind us of the ugly scar of racism that fomented our country for so long.Movie Review: What A Shame!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
I have actually purchased this DVD twice. Both were distributed by different studios. Both times, I was burned. The quality of this DVD is terrible! From the very begining, the picture is so blurry, it's unbearable. I had seen the film before I purchased the DVD, so I already know how great the story is. However, I would not recommend buying this DVD. It just is not worth the hassle.Movie Review: THOUGHT PROVOKING AND INTENSE!
Summary: 5 Stars
Take one of the finest actresses of her generation (Spacek) and and Whoopi Goldberg delivering an excellent, restrained performance and you have a top quality film at its very best. The subject matter is thought provoking and intense, replete with depictions of conditions that were utterly despicable, yet par for the course for their time. This film is a true testament to the human spirit, how prejudice and immorality do not belong in this world, and how we have all been created equal in the sight of God.