Here is an oldie but goodie. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those films that really took me forever to get around to watch. It is a film that I knew I would like and it eventually helped me a lot during my high school English class because we had to read it. That said, I didn't expect to like it this much. It is a very powerful film that shines in almost every department, especially the acting.
The movie is set over a three year period in the 1930's and is the story of a single dad named Atticus who along with two children learn many things about life including segregation, people, the courts and probably most of all themselves.
It is a film that works on very many levels and has a good plot, fine leads with Gregory Peck as Atticus and a young Mary Badham as Scout and some very fine writing. Out of all of it, I found that trial scene involving Brock Peters as Tom Robinson to be best part about the film. It is a scene that really sums up a film, brings out a lot of good opinions and thought to the forefront and is something you can't really take your eyes off. In addition to that scene, the film has many other very touching scenes. Gregory Peck and Mary Badham are in most of them and have good chemistry which makes these scenes quite believable.
The ending also really brings out the best of everything and is quite powerful on every level. It even made me shed a tear. Finally, it was very cool to see a young Robert Duvall.
What I am not a fan of in the film is some of the actions of the characters and also some of the wardrobes. The younger characters seem to run rampant through the town without any supervision and this feels very unrealistic. Along with that, some of the characters don't seem to change their shirts even though the movie is set over a three year period.
Even though I'm pretty tired of this story due to all the work I did with it in school, I still recognize that this film is pretty special and one of the best films of the 1960's.
4.5/5
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