4 Little Girls broke my heart, completely. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't have a clue about this incident in history until I sat down and watched Spike Lee's film on it and to say I was horrified would be an understatement. It is both appalling and amazing to me that only 30 some odd years ago, a racial battle full of ignorance, pure meanness and death was playing itself out through many parts of the United States.
Spike Lee is at his best here. Never does he make the fatal mistake of showing any bias. Instead, he is factual, passionately involved and sincere in his undertaking and personalizes the town, the people, the victims, the feel of the time so well that one cannot walk away unchanged from this viewing experience. He let's the story gnaw away at your heart and your conscience and your sense of humanity and he does so flawlessly.
An incredible film - how incredibly sad that it is so because of such a tragedy.
Spike Lee is at his best here. Never does he make the fatal mistake of showing any bias. Instead, he is factual, passionately involved and sincere in his undertaking and personalizes the town, the people, the victims, the feel of the time so well that one cannot walk away unchanged from this viewing experience. He let's the story gnaw away at your heart and your conscience and your sense of humanity and he does so flawlessly.
An incredible film - how incredibly sad that it is so because of such a tragedy.