Till

This ugly but true story should be mandatory viewing in schools. Sadly, it tells the story that extreme and deadly racism still exists in the United States, the land of the free? After watching this movie, I don't think so.

I was glad that I was able to obtain this historical viseo.

Our country is great, but we have some very unjust marks that we cannot forget! We can never make things right for those who suffered so wrongly, but maybe by being reminded of the error of our ways, we can make the future better for us all.

This was a heartbreaking movie of a mother’s courage and real love for what happened to her child.

good movie

Such a young soul to have died in such a violent manner RIP EMMITT TILL

Somethings they turned down the heinous, graphic, racism, and murder of Emmitt Till at the hands of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant. They also should have shown the how racist and indifferent the all white jury was about the murder of a child.

Great movie

I give this movie 20 out of 5 stars. It provokes pride as you watch the strength of a mothers love. Yet it provokes anger when you see what racism has done to our society.

Ce DVD n’est pas utilisable en France

This is a review of the 2022 biographical drama ‘Till’. We watched it on the 2023 All Region Blu-ray, in a set of Blu-ray, DVD (bizarrely, Region 1 only) and Digital (again valid only in the US), from Orion-Universal. This does not appear to be a film especially targeted at the European market, which may explain this disappointing dog’s dinner of availability. The excellent Blu-ray plays in the original 2.39:1, 1080p, and English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1. The quality of picture and audio is exemplary.By any standards, this film is a hard watch, which is hardly a surprise. It deals with one of the most shocking events to blight what was already one of the darkest, bleakest aspects of American society and history: the unprovoked, illegal, targeting ~ particularly the lynching ~ of African-Americans, in the Southern USA, following the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves. This specific event was the lynching of a 14 year-old boy, a visitor to Mississippi from Chicago, in August 1955. Emmett Till was seized and murdered, and against all the odds, the men who committed these acts, were arrested and charged.Against the odds! The film makes it very clear that ALL such events at the time, went unsanctioned, unpunished. African-American witnesses were too scared to speak out. White law enforcement would neither investigate nor arrest. Jurisdictions would not prosecute. Juries would not deliver guilty verdicts. This was the norm, and it was 1955. I find this especially shocking, as this is not some event of ancient history: I was born in 1955!The film sets out to shock us, to remind us, that well within living memory, something so horrific and deeply uncivilised, could occur in one of the great liberal, democratic nations. But it also reminds us that whilst such events were specific to certain pre-Civil War slave states, even in the anti-Slavery north the playing field was not level. There is a very pointed scene early on, where Emmett’s mother, Marnie, a well-dressed, well-spoken and well-employed woman, who just happens to be black, is challenged very disrespectfully, in a chic Chicago department store.The co-screenwriter and director was Chinonye Chukwu, a Nigerian-American whose previous film dealt with the equally gruelling topic of the American death penalty. Her co-writer, film-maker Keith Beauchamp, has studied the murder of Emmett Till for years, and written extensively on the subject, leading the US Department of Justice to reopen the case. Chukwu planned the project from 2020, and early on, brought onboard the 2 main stars, Danielle Deadwyler and Whoopi Goldberg, who play Marnie Bradley-Till and her mother, Alma. Deadwyler is superb, in one of the most traumatic performances you are ever likely to witness. Controversially, she was not OSCAR-nominated.Jalyn Hall, a young African-American actor who was about Emmett’s age when the film was made, plays Emmett as cheerful, cheeky and a little brash. Talented character actor Frankie Faison, so effective in TV series ‘The Wire’ and “Banshee’, plays Marnie’s father. There is a fine array of American and British support. Brit Tosin Cole plays the revered Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers, himself later assassinated in a brutal race crime. The African-American performances are universally strong, sympathetic and persuasive, in what was, most likely, a difficult and emotional experience.This is not a film that you can enjoy: think ‘Schindler's List’ or ‘Spotlight’. However, it is something that happened, it is a story that needed to be told, and known. Chukwu and her cast do the story proud: 5 very hard Stars.

wegen die falsche regions code kann die DVD nicht spielen

loved this movie very educational and informative if you are interested in the emmette till murder and the way it was back than