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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've heard it's a terrible movie, and glaringly historically inaccurate. Avoid. [/quote]

sold out 1st night it opened at the Avalon in CC, so I sincerely doubt that its " terrible" as that's not a simple crowd by any means.

I saw it with my tween yesterday. I thought the tension between King and Johnson was likely pretty realistic and a good lesson for my 6th grader. Politicians rarely get it on first go around and in our history usually lots of people have to die first. Johnson didn't "get it" on Vietnam eiher, remember…. he chose to not seek the nomination because he couldn't solve that problem of competing tensions. I could def see him saying to King " you're just gonna have to wait, the war on poverty is first, I dont have the votes"

King was a good strategist. Non-violence needed strategy and the move shared more on that than other films I had seen on the topic before.

I think the negotiating between the two and the tension within the movement itslef was very fairly represented and educational for young people.
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