Should have won an Oscar

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2003)

Malcolm X was an excellent movie. Many say that Malcolm was a contraversial character. But in truth he wasn't. He was the black product of the centuries of racism and opression that blacks endured. His father was murdered by the Klan. His mother couldn't understandably handle the stress and ended up in a mental institution(That part was in the book by Alex haley The Autiobiography of Malcolm X on which the movie was based) him and his siblings were split up by the state. Malcolm once told his teacher that he wanted to be a lawyer and his white teacher told him that it wasn't a black man's profession and that he should be a carpenter or plasterer(I forget which). If most men faced what young malcolm did by their 21st birthday most would have gone mad. true he was also a criminal in his youth and went to prison which was a saving point in his life. He then does a complete 180 degree turn in prison and gives his life to Islam.
Although he hated whites during his NOI days he goes to the Mecca and sees Muslims of all races and starts to lose his hatred for whites. Case in point is that Malcolm's life was about constant change. Without change we cannot adapt and thus cannot hope to survive.