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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 381701" data-attributes="member: 8">MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)[ATTACH=full]49636[/ATTACH]As one would expect from a real life human vs. human story this film is often frustrating to watch, and mostly brings about feelings of revenge. When that revenge finally happens it&#039;s not as satisfying as it should be, and at the same time I don&#039;t&nbsp;&nbsp; want it to be.It&#039;s perfectly OK in a completely dreamed up scenario like, say, a soap opera, but generally speaking I don&#039;t enjoy feeling that way about other people.However, I find this film incredibly interesting when the story is placed in the bigger picture of American history, rather than an isolated case in &quot;The South&quot;.The cultural shifts in the 1960s, the oh-so-typical American conspiracy theories and the elusive power of the FBI and how it operates adds to the film&#039;s grandeur.The physical action in Mississippi Burning - no matter how difficult to watch - is extremely well done.Willem Dafoe is almost cast against type and even though it&#039;s just Willem Dafoe with specs I often had to remind myself that it was&nbsp; Willem Dafoe.I&#039;m not a big fan of Gene Hackman and perhaps that&#039;s why this film sat in my watchlist for such a long time, but here he doesn&#039;t disappoint (or at least doesn&#039;t do any damage).Frances McDormand is reliable as usual but the one who ended up on my radar is actor Brad Dourif whose performance I enjoyed previously in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO&#039;S NEST, and now I feel I need to see more of him (a glance at IMDB informs me that he was Piter De Vries in David Lynch&#039;s infamous DUNE).Like I said it&#039;s very disturbing but there are many great things about this film that make it enjoyable and fascinating to watch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 381701, member: 8"] MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988) [ATTACH type="full"]49636[/ATTACH] As one would expect from a real life human vs. human story this film is often frustrating to watch, and mostly brings about feelings of revenge. When that revenge finally happens it's not as satisfying as it should be, and at the same time I [I]don't[/I] want it to be. It's perfectly OK in a completely dreamed up scenario like, say, a soap opera, but generally speaking I don't enjoy feeling that way about other people. However, I find this film incredibly interesting when the story is placed in the bigger picture of American history, rather than an isolated case in "The South". The cultural shifts in the 1960s, the oh-so-typical American conspiracy theories and the elusive power of the FBI and how it operates adds to the film's grandeur. The physical action in Mississippi Burning - no matter how difficult to watch - is extremely well done. Willem Dafoe is almost cast against type and even though it's just Willem Dafoe with specs I often had to remind myself that it [I]was[/I] Willem Dafoe. I'm not a big fan of Gene Hackman and perhaps that's why this film sat in my watchlist for such a long time, but here he doesn't disappoint (or at least doesn't do any damage). Frances McDormand is reliable as usual but the one who ended up on my radar is actor Brad Dourif whose performance I enjoyed previously in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, and now I feel I need to see more of him (a glance at IMDB informs me that he was Piter De Vries in David Lynch's infamous DUNE). Like I said it's very disturbing but there are many great things about this film that make it enjoyable and fascinating to watch. [/QUOTE]

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