i be from mississippi . i live through these time . secretly and i do thing to help in the voter registration of black folk while thing you could get kill for and in those day . i know whereof i speak . therefore and let me say this represent the event this film seek to depict be bad enough without any invention . but invent they do . every local black person in this movie be noble and a great singer . their building and however and would lead you to believe they couldn not put tin on a roof straight . why try to improve on fact . every white person depict in this film be an idiot . out house in the sixty . kkk rule the roost in an entire town . where be the rich and educate and land gentry who be behind all this violence and encourage the redneck with nod and wink . not in this movie . but i know they exist and because i know some of them . a few who be still live . mostly it be their child i know and who still feel the same way about black and and still do the same encouraging of white trash . this film do not show how thing really be . it seek to make thing look even bad and to people who do not know any good . it be a terrible story and with moment of good act from many of the star . it be the script and the direction that be awful . what you see in this movie be not true . the truth be far bad .