Malcolm X film

We had talked about Malcolm X a bit in our class but I had never seen the film before this class so I decided to watch specifically for this blog.

The beginning of the film sets the tone of how blacks were not free and that white men were worse than criminals

Malcolm talks about his family's history and that his father's brothers were killed by white men, one of them was lynched, his mother was raped by a white man and he married his father so her kids would have color.

later on Malcolm is at a dance party where he dances with a white woman named Sophia, which was surprised me a little, she suggests he take his girl home and come back for her, in the next scene he's back with the white girl in their car. 

Malcolm explains that his father died which people said was a suicide but Malcolm's mother knows he was murdered, after that Malcolm's mother tries to take care of all her children but the State Agency separated them and Malcolm grew up where he was the only black child in his class, he expresses his loneliness and how he thought the word "nigger" was his name and nothing was wrong with it. He expresses wanting to be a lawyer but his teacher says it's unrealistic for his race.

Malcolm grows up and says he's a victim of social order, he goes to prison after a robbery and meets a man that changes his perspective on things and teaches him to use white man's words against him.

The film itself has some different styles and editing that I've seen in a movie, when characters perform an action sometimes you'll hear a sound effect that obviously couldn't happen, there's also editing that moves to the past and back to the present without notifying it's done so.

I think the movie is pretty good, it is accurate to the time period and well acted, it's a different movie and I think it's a very good biography.