It opens in 2 days, in a limited release, on 19 screens across the country… here’s Nijla’s review from AFI, if you missed it…
In any historical record, there’s an official narrative and a human narrative. The human narrative in Ava DuVernay’s epic film "Selma," shows us four little girls dressed in their Sunday best, talking about hairstyles when their bodies are blown away in an explosion of fire and hate. This scene establishes the severity of white supremacist violence in America at this time, just a year before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would win the Nobel Peace Prize. The official narrative, available in many schools and media, gives us a …
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