Becoming more toothless....As Time Goes By

Rating: 5/10 (16 August 2012)

To Kill a Mockingbird, made in 1962 and depicting the Alabama of 1932, looks and feels a little shabby today. There is a lack of passion and raw emotion here (Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch) sleep-walks through the whole thing) and, considering the lack of stability of the times, one would expect a lot more rage. However ..it is what it is..and this is a very highly rated movie by a lot of people. It does seem a little pointless to let a man "get away with murder" at the end of the movie..while the rest of the film..is all about how justice is required by society..no matter what. It has a certain clever aspect to it...going back to something Atticus Finch said early in the film (to his children) "we don't kill Mockingbirds because they sing so well". Yes, well the David Duvall character must have whistled wonderfully. I guess there are no Golden Rules.