Set in a small southern town in the 1960s, Carl Lee Hailie (Samuel L Jackson) awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter Tanya (Raeven Kelly). A young, idealistic lawyer Jake Brigantz (Matthew McConauhey) takes up Carl Lee’s defense, and the case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart.

Director Joel Schumacher introduces the issue with traditional Southern States music and a big yellow pickup truck featuring a confederate flag and the definition of Southern States white males: two rednecks with mullets, tattoos and derelict clothing, or as I like to call them “yobbo’s”. The director purposely gives the image of racist whites, whils

During the course of the court case, race matters are more evident then ever. At the beginning of the trial, as the judge walks, there is a slightly overbearing shot showing the whole audience to the case which has all the black people seated on one side of the room and the white people on the other to give the movie audience a feeling of the heated intensity between, not just the victims families, but between the entirety of the white and the black races.

The two yobbo’s image of no respect for opposite races is enhanced when Nikky Katt, A Time To Kill, (1996) offers these racial comments: “Sorry sir, we don’t allow no African-American’s in here.” and “You go to hell nigger.” The director does this by instigating a scene of a redneck bar and picturing both the yobbos as the comments are made to catch their expressions.

The way little ten year old Tanya is portrayed is completely opposite to the way the yobbo’s are. Shown to be of innocence and sincerity in such instances as when Carl Lee Hailey carries her to the ambulance, she lies helplessly in his arms, and says “Daddy, I’m sorry I dropped th

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