1988 · drama · crime · history
Mississippi Burning
Directed by Alan Parker2h 8m1988
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Our read: Mississippi Burning (1988) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
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