Changing Times

Rating: 9/10 (17 January 2000)

KTLA, Los Angeles, showed last night this movie in which some of the more horrific scenes are even more difficult to watch because we know that they were not the figment of some writer's imagination, but they were true events which actually happened no so long ago. It really is Cinema Verite' at its very best.
I have watched regularly the original broadcast of the TV series" In the Heat of the Night" where Carrol O'Connor is a white Sheriff/Police Chief in a small fictitious Mississippi town, and his African-American Detective is played by Howard E. Rollins. The inter- action between those two characters and the realistic way they are dealt with ,makes it a real pleasure to watch. Its episodes describe very plausible situations which occurred not long after the events shown in Mississippi Burning , and this country must be proud of the great changes which have taken place in such a short period of time.
We are living in a historic transitional period when social changes are happening very fast, and at a speed that nobody thought could be possible.