#3 Movie Blog

I’ve never read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, so I was clueless as to what the movie was about before watching it. I liked the theme that seemed to be repetitive: Don’t hurt something that does nothing but lives their lives without harming anyone. Atticus said that people should not kill mockingbirds because all they do is make music for us humans to enjoy. I felt that another example of this was the blatant acts of racism towards African Americans speaks true to this theme; Atticus defending a black man who seems to be wrongfully accused was being penalized by his peers because he was a “n***** lover”.  Racism, unlike a mockingbird, does nothing but harm people, and should be dealt away with/killed. I think the movie does a good job at portraying that kids are not born racist, they are raised that way. Atticus’s two kids, Scout and Jem, were raised to respect African American  as they would any other human being. Their own maid is black, whom is treated greatly by their whole family (Atticus’s family). For a movie that was made in 1962, it was well made, and portrayed everything without any bias; the people watching did not have to chose one side or the other, but could watch the movie and have a whole other image. Overall, I’m actually interested in reading the book now that I like the movie; movies based off of books usually leave out a lot of detail they do not think is important, but what they don’t understand is that every detail counts.