Just saw "Selma" [View all]
Random observations
-Thank God for the early matinee. I see about two movies a week and it's a lot easier to sate my desire at $7.79 a show.
-Dr. King was a great man, not a perfect man but a great one.
- The martyred Kennedy brothers, Dr. King, and Muhammad Ali were my heroes when I was thirteen years old and they still are now.
-LBJ gets treated a little rough in the movie. He certainly was more forward looking than all but a handful of southerners during that era.
- In LBJ's defense presidents aren't autocrats. They have to work within a system that was designed to thwart fundamental change if not make it very difficult. And leaders in democratic countries have to keep their eye on the next election, lest they lose to the very people who are trying to thwart them right now. I think that gets lost on some.
-The movie does redeem LBJ a bit at the end. They show him in a discussion with George Wallace and LBJ asks him to think of how history will treat him. Wallace basically says he doesn't give a rip about history. LBJ answers that he cares and "I don't want to go down in history with the likes of you."
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