To Kill a Mockingbird

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Movie review, ‘To Kill Mockingbird’
It is not normal for a movie to capture the magic of a great book and at the same time hold its own as a work of art of cinema. To Kill Mockingbird movie proves to run over this hurdle. This movie was made in a remote town, Alabama, during the great depression. The director of the movie portrays Maycomb as "a tired old town"; dirt roads, climbing vines, picket fences, front porches held up by pillars of brick, rocking chairs, and Panama hats. It captures crucial questions on ignorance, racism, poverty, and injustices of those times in America. Moral and deeply empathetic, the movie is a model coming-of-age story of childhood innocence lost in the segregated American south.
Peck (white man) who plays Atticus Finch is a hero, a perfect human being and a man who does not do injustices. This wonderful stand in equality leads him to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, from baseless charges of rape. The man has a great character throughout the movie and the reason behind it is to set an example for his dear children. He knows if he does the right thing, taking up the case, then would expect his kids to follow his footsteps and respect him for that.
His belief in justice conflicts with the southern culture; up against the norms of the white south culture, racism. Severally his children are victimized on his behalf by been called children of a ‘nigger lover’. He is in particular against the unfair taboos including being against interracial sex and more particular the imaginable pride of white family concerned in the case. He is ready for anything at the expense of justice for the innocent blacks. He succeeds in proving in the court that Tom Robinson is innocent, that no rape occurred, that Maybelle came on to Robinson he tried to flee, that Bob Ewell beat his own daughter, and she lied about it out of shame for feeling attracted to a black man. It also becomes clear before the court; Mayella was making sexual advances towards Tom. Unfortunately the black innocent man...