Sunday, December 4, 2011

Mississippi Burning: One of My Ten Favorite Movies From the 80s



Mississippi Burning is one of the most powerful movies about racism that I saw when I was young. I think I was still too young to appreciate Roots when it was shown, but when this movie was shown, I could already understand the racial divide that America had to go through during those turbulent times. Gene Hackman is superb here - although I'm not sure if he got an Oscar for this - but I was really cheering for his character to nail the bad guys.

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