Powerful and eyeopening story!

Rating: 8/10 (2 April 2015)

The Civil Rights Movement is truly inspiring, and a well known leader of that movement was Martin Luther King Jr. In the movie Selma, King is portrayed more powerful than ever. This movie not only retold his story, but it showed us things we didn't originally know about him. He overcame so much during his life, and his wife Coretta gave up so much in her life to help and support his dream for the movement. It is really sad to see how society during this movement acted towards African Americans, Selma does an excellent job showing this. During the march from Selma to Montgomery, marchers were beat by state troopers, whipped, trampled and left in the street that way. Many had broken bones, bruises and blood all over themselves. The saddest part of all of it is that white people living in the town gathered and cheered on the troopers, yelled racist comments at the marchers, it was like a fun event for them to watch and enjoy. I knew these atrocities existed back then, but seeing them in action, watching how it effected the marchers was really eyeopening. These people really had such strong feelings of hate towards one race and its hard to understand how they could stand there and watch the people be beaten, how could they feel it was OK. It is so inspiring to see the marchers and Dr. King, with other leaders, continuously fight for their right even as they are physically and mentally tormented, and brought down. This movie was really inspiring and powerful, it taught me so much about the past, it is a must see for all ages.