To Kill A Mockingbird DVD

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 A MOVIE YOU WILL REMEMBER ALWAYS
I SAW THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS 15 AND TO THIS DAY I HAVE CHERISHED IT.THERE ARE SO MANY ELEMENTS IN THIS MOVIE THAT ARE LIFE LESSONS.THE LOSE OF A PARENT,THE BOND BETWEEN FATHER AND CHILDREN, ACCEPTING THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT,AND MOST OF ALL DOING THE RIGHT THING.
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 No, No, No!
No speeding car chases! No major gun battles! No nude scenes! All this movie has is a great story and great performances. Peck is great, sooo natural. He's not afraid to work with those amazing kids. This ranks right up there at the top of 'the list'.
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 Captivating...and moving
Anybody looking for information regarding signs of an early civil rights movement, this is the movie for it.
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 Good movie
Being that this is presented in B&W, I didn't know this until after I got it. But after watching it, the B&W affect goes along with the "spookiness" of the neighbor Boo.
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 A Superb Film
In this stunning film from the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a black man accused of raping a white girl. Set in Alabama, at the time of the Depression, little Scout who is narrating the story is growing up and trying to understand the confusing views of adults. Throughout the film we are reminded of the constant problem of prejudice and this is one of the hardest things Scout and her slightly older brother Jem have to deal with. Although it is a main theme in the film, the court scene and the trial of Tom is not the only story, or example of prejudice: another important part is set around Boo Radley and the mystery that surrounds him and his house. Throughout the film, a picture is built up of Boo – a man who only comes out at night, who kills and eats people’s cats and other pets. Everyone in the little town of Maycomb, including Jem and Scout, is terrified of him, although it seems that no-one has ever seen him; the stories are just rumours that have circulated and been elaborated on as they went. Right near the end of the film, when the climax of the court scene has died down, and the film seems to be coming gently to a close, Jem and Scout are coming home from a pageant organised as some sort of entertainment for adults and children alike on Halloween. Walking through an area of patchy woodland, the children are surprised and shocked by the realisation that someone else is walking just behind them, keeping just out of sight. After a dramatic incident, we finally get to meet the real Boo – is he the monster that has been built up before our eyes through the film? The court scene is a climax in the film and much time is spent in the 1930s court room with Peck pacing up and down, revealing the truth from the witnesses to jury and audience alike; even if they can’t accept the truth in the end. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his performance as Atticus; a well deserved reward for some excellent acting. He holds himself as the lawyer he is in all parts of his life and treats many things as one would do in court. Especially when dealing with Jem and Scout, a notable example him acting like this is right at the beginning of the film when Jem refuses to come down from a tree. Scout thinks that she has to do what he says because he’s not going to come down and she respects him. Atticus just tells her to ‘leave him and he’ll come down.’ He realises that Jem only wants attention so in leaving him, Jem isn’t getting the attention he wants. As well as being this almost hard lawyer, Atticus is also a very good father for his children, and he need to be for their mother is dead. He reads with and to Scout and plays a limited amount of football with Jem, and he gets them to understand that ‘you don’t really understand a person until you climb inside their skin and walk around in it.’ -A motto which can be applied to nearly every part of the film from Boo Radley to Tom Robinson to Mayella Ewell. In conclusion, it is a fantastic film by Robert Mulligan and it is a shame that he didn’t do many other films like it. Some people might say that at times it is a little over-sentimentalised but I disagree; the balance has been got just right between soppiness and being completely unemotional. It fully deserves the four Academy Awards it got for it. A must-see film.
Submitted by evil_joey (South East England)
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