Prolog: An image never far from my consciousness depicts a little black girl, all beautiful in her snow white dress, carrying school supplies - being escorted through a presumably dangerous and hostile crowd by four burly Federal Marshals. I would like to have one of those marshals, of course, blessed with the physic of Rob Gronkowski. What that brave little girl went through fifty years ago still makes me want to punch some KKK cracker in the snoot!
So, anyway, you remember this movie, released in 1988 and starring two of our most distinguished actors, Gene Hackman and Francis McDermott, accompanied well by Willem Dafoe. It is based partly on the real murder of three civil rights boys attempting to win voting rights for blacks in a violent Jim Crow town. There is plenty to hate and violence in this movie. You emerge from it, not relaxed and joyful, but rather thoughtful and even deeply troubled. Watch it again, anyway. A
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