re: #5 #FergusonFireside

the movie looks good. From some readings it also seems the movie does NOT shy away from the subject of King’s infedility. He doesn’t put him on a pedestal, but through scenes with King and wife Corretta, Duvernay tries to show the human side to the man (one such scene i’m hearing about alot involves those taped recording Hoover sent to Corretta King of MLK with another woman. A move by Hoover, BTW, that if not directly ordered by LBJ, was sanctioned when he “allowed” Hoover to do what he could to “distract” King from his plans vis a vis Voting Rights Act).

The director I think was smart because unlike Jolie, she chose to focus on one particular event in the short life of Dr King, the Selma marches, rather than trying to do a true “biopic” of the whole life of MLK (which to my mind there is STILL nothing better than Paul Winfield’s portrayal of King for the TV movie). Jolie on the other hand chose to try to do a complete biopic from life to present and from reviews I’ve read, it was too extraordinary of a life to delegate to just under 3 hrs.