To Kill A Mockingbird

Lately I have been more intrigued by those older films, done in the 30s to 60s, black and white or colour. Most of them are simply beautiful fine works. Often their stories were simple, but held great deal of complexities; whereas a lot of movie at our time have complicated plots but hold nothing to inspire the audience. 

Tonight I was deeply moved by To Kill A Mockingbird. It was such a simply but elegant film, a bit sad, but a fine fine film. The screenplay, the acting, the score and the directing—everything was just seamless. The theme is timeless. When you look at our world right now, you still see a lot of discrimination and hatred against minority groups in our society and too many people have taken them lightly. “Loosen up”, they said, but what they don’t realize is by not taking these issues seriously, they help to reinforce this “tyranny of majority”, the hegemony of the majority group. It is sad sometimes to listen to all those talks that project a person’s ignorance but they claim “the freedom of speech” entitles them to do so. Having lived in a free society here seem to make them take this “freedom” for granted when they should treat it delicately. Abusing this freedom only shows what kind of person they are and this freedom definitely not entitle them you to disrespect and trash other people who are different from them. 

Sometimes I do feel hopeless and don’t think it’s gonna do anything to argue with them. However, this film reinforces my belief in this matter and does shed a light of hope for having a better future.