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Post date: Apr 7, 2019 4:50:56 PM
This is based on the book that most kids have to read in school. (although not in Texas. I wonder whether it has been banned in the southern schools) A quick search says it banned in Mississippi because it "make people uncomfortable"I remember reading it when I was a teenager and it finding it very scary. The word of a white grown up out weighed everyone else.
There seemed to have been a time around the 1950s were studio executive figured it was a easy bet to adapt a famous novel. This is always doomed for failure. You just cannot fit a hundreds page book into a two hour movie. It does not work. There are many examples of failures. The best you can do is to try to capture the feel of the book. "To Kill a Mockingbird" does that.
That is a tall order for me because in general I have found movies or show about kids to be intolerable. Unfortunately, too many filmmaker have listen to their mothers and believed they had an interesting childhood so they decided to tell a "unique" coming of age story. They are all the same life affirming with a touch of bitter sweet.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" starts as a reminiscence. "Maycomb was a tired out town. . ."; "Days were 24 hours but seemed longer". It then continues with the children obsession with mythical stories and threat of Boo Radley. That leads them to the courthouse where he mat have been locked up. This exposed them to the real threat in the town. The children have a feeling that something is wrong but cannot quite figure it out. One of the best scenes is where Scout defuses a dangerous situation with realizing what she did.
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