High School Musical 4: East Meets West Movie Exclusive News

High School Musical 4: East Meets West Movie Exclusive News: I was in my last year of high school, when the events depicted in Ava Duvernay "Selma," he began, and I have closely followed the American struggle for civil rights led by Martin Luther King. Maybe because I had always liked American movies, I was also interested in American politics, society and culture, and I found what I was thinking between American whites and blacks in particular time convincing and touching.

There may be other reasons for my fascination, reasons that have to do with the gradual awakening of my political consciousness that was in the years just before the 1967 Six Day War more focused on what was happening outside Israel inside. We had no TV, but to follow the events in the United States, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 still remember how surprised I was to hear about my parents when I was after leaving Friday night and returned home via the local newspapers, news film and, above all, Time magazine, that my parents had a subscription.

I took this little walk down memory lane to explain why almost all the films of this period of American history moves me; and if (as often happens) the film is good and "Selma" is a good movie, I moved to one side.

I was pleasantly surprised by Duvernay movie without hearing the Director. Most movies on the fight for civil rights, both in the US and South Africa, they say interesting, maybe even exciting stories; movie, but usually not more than enough, based on the teaching and conventional formulas. "Selma" is not limited to this.

The film begins in 1964, after Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo) received the Nobel Peace Prize. It opens with a great scene where the king and his wife, Coretta (Carmen Ejogo) discuss or an elegant dress for the ceremony could not send the wrong message to their followers.

Earlier that same year, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) managed to get a law that segregation in Congress, but African-Americans living in the problems of the South of their right to vote because of the abuse that had not yet in the hands of government bureaucrats White then. The king wants to persuade Johnson to another law that makes it illegal obstacles, to test for blacks to vote, places to cross; Johnson atmospheric conditions, however.

A large part of the power of the film comes from the scenes where the king and Johnson discuss the right way to continue the struggle for civil rights. These scenes are well written and that Johnson did not look like a great champion of civil rights, history has so often. The two British actors playing the King and Johnson does a good job. Re looks to the president, without backtracking; the latter, fearing for their public image (and tarnished by the escalation of the Vietnam War), trying to convince the king that his plan for the people of Selma, Alabama in abandoned lead a march to the state capital Montgomery.

Johnson is confident that the march, which will be covered by TV and the press, will end in violence orchestrated by the racist governor of Alabama, George Wallace (Tim Roth). Most "Selma" is the search for the king of his plan, to resist even some of his fellow activists.

The highlights of the film are the three kings organized marches; The first two, in fact, end up in terrible violence. What it gives depth "Selma" and power, but it is not just the story directly and follow a plan, the struggle to achieve it, and the subsequent implementation of a choice rather than a traditional table would. Instead, they used Duvernay story of the march as the basis for a kind of historical and human mosaic that moves between the intimate and the epic.

In other words, "Selma" is not just a chronicle of historical events; your goal is to become more involved in the fight and move the King as it develops occur. The film is very often on the move, but has higher goals, more intelligent than that.

The result is one of the best films ever made on an episode of American history and emphasizing the political dimension. The emphasis will not affect the ability of the film to the known human history: King, Johnson, Wallace and other historical figures portrayed in a completely, even if only brief appearances.

In addition, there are some well-crafted suggests that the tension between the king and his wife now; Note, for example, the great scene where Coretta King asks if he loves her, and says he indeed, hesitates then when she asks him if he likes any of the other women who work at his side.

Especially Duvernay know that the end of the battle "Selma" is exciting, but she did not give a victory. The king himself, after all, was assassinated in 1967, and we have everything that's happened in the US recently, while the film was in production. But this knowledge only makes you stronger "Selma", so you can do what you should do a film about a historical episode is significant sample that we want not only what happened, but what is still happening.

Duvernay made his film with a small budget, and it took a long time to get the project underway and others to persuade. The result, as I said here, he deserves to be admired.