Mississippi Burning is one of the several and great crime movies about “Civil Rights Movement”, a movement that was aimed at to finish racism and segregation in the United States. The director, Alan Parker reflects his own ideas about anti-racism in the movie. We can understand this situation from a child who is an African-American and talks about his anti-racist senses with an FBI agent and says his name as “Alan”. This movie influenced me deeply because it actually portrays the past reality between black people and white people, especially whites’ cruelty against blacks.
As a general introduction, Mississippi Burning is produced in 1988, directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo. It tells a story based on the FBI’s investigation into the murders of three civil rights workers in the state of Mississippi in 1964. The FBI sends two agents who are Rupert Anderson (Mississippi Sheriff) and Alan Ward. They both want to contact with inhabitant people about the murders but can not conduct because of the difficulty as Sheriff and his deputies labor influence over the folk. They also associate the difficulty with Ku Klux Klan. This Ku Klux Klan gangsters or members attack black people and also kill them. A child who calls himself “Alan” talks about racism and cruelty of white people with Alan Ward. Ward and Anderson make a plan to demonstrate the KKK and other cruel criminals and members.
They all imprisoned through the plan of Alan Ward and Rupert Anderson or the revelation through the child “Alan”. In the end, we see a funeral. Black adults and black children with white adults and white children are together in the funeral and this symbolizes the unity of race. So, in the end, we understand that no matter what, there has to be the equality between people and we are the same because we are mortals.
In the movie, the very common issue is racism but we also see other cruelty, for example, beating women. However, seeing a black person as not a human being is the message that reflects the wrong ideas about black people. So basically, the movie demonstrates discrimination in all kinds for me because they all are the same thing; meaningless hate. They actually are the ones should be abominations because all people should live equally, white people have no superiority to black people. Thus, as a movie about racism, cruelty, and the Civil Rights Movement, this movie has an idea. That is, for me, a person who does not like a race or humankind and cannot see equality, does not like also anything and becomes cruel because of his or her arrogance. So, we see the reality of cruelty from the history of the United States in this movie.
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