Easy Target

Rating: 9/10 (6 December 2013)

Another Dark yet Determined Movie from Director Alan Parker that is as Disturbing as it is Entertaining in an Educational kind of way. Here He Presents a Real Life Case Study in a Fictionalized and Sensationalized Account of a Triple Murder in the South by Racist Psychopaths.
It is Compelling Cinema with Outstanding Performances by Outstanding Actors both Leads and Supporting. The Director puts these Actors in Front of Believable Sets and a Slickly Photographed Milieu of Mud and Mayhem in Mississippi.
Forget the Sanitized and Inflated Role the Real FBI had in this Case and be Ready for some Intense and Insightful Drama that is Heart Wrenching and Hard to Watch at Times. But that is the Point. This Behaviour cannot be Called out Enough as a Reminder of What has Been and What Remains in the Hearts and Minds of these Low-Lifes.
One of the Explanations of such Thinking is brought out by an Agent when He says..."If you're not better than a N****r than who are you better than?" That pretty much Sums up the Only Reason for such Hatred. These Bigoted People are so Insecure and so Poor that they must Lash Out at Something or Someone, and the Negroes are an Easy Target.