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Selma
While not a biopic of Martin Luther King, Jr. per se, Ava DuVerney’s Selma shines a light on the private life of America’s defining civil rights leader. As played by David Oyelowo, King is a brave and heroic man, while also plagued by insecurity, and philandering to boot. The movie’s best scenes involve King’s confrontations with his wife Loretta (a magnificent Carmen Ejogo), as the two struggle with their own imperfections, rather than systemic political issues. The film also features moving recreations of the Selma marches, in which African-American men and women joined forces with conscious white Americans to fight back against racism. Understand, Selma does not white-wash its subject the way that a movie like The Help needs a plucky white girl to save its black protagonists. Rather, the movie presents a portrait of unity and courage—the kind of understanding the nation still fights to reach today among all its classes, LGBTQ folk included.
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