Emmett Till ( English Movie 2022)- My comments. ( Here it is when the 4th of July is coming up.)
The movie ‘Till’ is a record of one of the violent, inhuman part of American history from 1955 that later brought in amends in the federal law of the free land. What an expensive way to learn the basics of humanity!
This is of a very sad incident from the American History that crushed my heart impalpable anymore and left my eyes dry with tears in dearth to drop beyond. I do not want to tell the story because I would choke in grief.
America has walked a long way and black Americans should balm their feet.
Mamie the mother of Till by Danielle Deadwyler is a performance of unfathomable grief which deserves an ‘Oscar Award’, failing which the jury won’t be pardoned for the injustice. What a nasty role to act. She didn’t act. But she lived the hell. My heart bleeds for this mother.
It’s a ‘slow burn’ picture of a precarious past when ‘Karma’ pulls away love and beat up with mindless hatred, leaving the victim community confounded in anguish and helplessness against brutality.
‘Till’ is not alone folks. I’m equally devastated. I’m in solidarity with the blacks who endured racism by body, mind and heart.
Don’t watch this film unless you are ready to delve into the melancholy of the past reality.
God bless Humanity! May God bless America!
-Srirangam Ramesh