Selma features such an erray of powerful moments, that you are willing to forgive it's TV movie feel and it's alleged fact tinkering and just allow yourself to get sucked into the experience. David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, is utterly rousing, particularly when he steps to a podium, conveying the empathy and strength of King as both a flawed man and an iconic, civil rights leader. Tim Roth is also excellent, though underused, as the infamous Gov. George Wallace. Director Ava DuVernay has crafted a film that strives to educate as much as it does to shock and I believe it succeeds at both quite well. I was especially fond of the time-logged FBI transcripts of King's and others movements that would occasionally grace the screen, a clever way of reinforcing the constant government surveillance King was under by utilizing a necessary storytelling device. A stirring and at times, quite impactful film, that illuminates a history some would like to forget and that despite it's rather unsubtle tendencies, remains moving and thought provoking throughout.
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