All around the world, people are starting to understand history more and more clearly. This understanding comes with the help of portrayals of history, and historical events that lead us to where we are now. These portrayals vary in different forms such as movies, books, theatrical plays, etc. Be it literary or visual, having to experience these historical events is, truly, a privilege to the mind, and privileged by the mind. Movies help people understand history, or historical events in a different way than others. These movies paint the picture for you and present it in the best conceivable ways, but having them be accurate is more important by educational means. The movie “Selma” is a very accurate rendition of Martin Luther King Junior’s …show more content…
In “Selma”, Martin Luther King junior meets multiple times with the president of the United States at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson. He did, in fact, have those meetings. However, in “Selma” those meeting were displayed as insignificant, aimless, and futile throughout the movie when, in point of fact, “In truth, the partnership between Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King junior on civil rights is one of the most productive and consequential in American history” (Lockett). President Johnson was very cooperative and had suggestions as for what to …show more content…
It does help people appreciate the time they live in, it helps people understand the struggle they went through, and how it was overcome. As Ava DuVernay says, “These stories deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis”. When people know more, they understand more. People genuinely become better people because this is how society moves forward. Awareness is raised, mistakes are mended, and the world moves