don't give up 1933. The time of the Great Depression. A black family of sharecroppers somehow makes ends meet living in a shack in the middle of the fields of dry Louisiana. The head of the family is taken into custody for theft, leaving a mother and three children without support in such a troubled time as for whites and even more so for blacks. .
Adaptation of the work of William Armstrong, who conveyed on his pages the harsh everyday life of disenfranchised African Americans, became a classic of Western literature and praised by critics, but refuted for smoothed corners by real witnesses of all cruelty, the very victims of oppression.
The project was taken up by Martin Riet, an amateur of Paul Newman and stories about the struggle both with fate and with the law, where among the characters an ordinary factory worker fights for her rights by joining the union Norma Rae_1979, where an elite prostitute proves her innocence in the murder of Nuts_1987, where a woman teaches literacy to the already adult forehead Stanley & Iris_1989, the young hero of this morally strong film adaptation, the battle with the hardships of an abandoned woman falls to the lot of his mother.
The times when the churches were divided according to the color of the skin, although the one to whom the prayers went was the same for everyone, the times of inequality, injustice, blind enmity and cruel treatment of the Negroid race.
Stolen pork to feed a hungry family can result in several years of penal servitude. A strong woman without giving up trying to find at least some news about the imprisoned spouse and sends her eldest son to search. Taking a journey through the woods, from labor camp to camp, looking for his father behind bars, the boy will face the low deeds of whites and stumble upon a wise teacher who will invite him to attend school and learn to read.
A slow but effective storytelling featuring a Morgan dog named Saunder. Wounded at the arrest of the owner runs into the forest to lick the wounds. This is the key role of comparisons of perseverance and survival. A ray of hope, recovery and overcoming difficulties.
The book, unlike the film, has tougher colors and not everyone in it is destined to survive. In the role of a local guy with a guitar singing about shameful prose, blues singer Taj Mahal lit up. Valued by film critics, but left by the viewer, the spirit-lifting film is broadcast only on the birthday of Martin Luther King and then not always. It is necessary to watch it whenever possible.
10 out of 10