I got a 4K disk of Gene Hackman's MISSISSIPPI BURNING from Amazon Germany. Glad the late great Hackman has a 4K release to his name because this film showed the man's empathic and genial acting style, this time showcased on a period film where Hackman is a sheriff ordered to helped an FBI team (1950's Jim Crow America) find out the dreadful fate of three white men who was believed killed by the most bigoted white folks of a Southern state. The three men were civil rights worker who was defending, upholding Negro rights at a time when they themselves could get hurt just the same -- pushing the cause of Black Americans. For many weeks Hackman's sheriff and a legion of FBI foot soldiers scoured the muddy ponds and lakes where the car of those believed killed, were sunk. Amidst this frustrating search for justice were the deep-setted hostility of the white folks who would not hesitate to kill Negroes to uphold their segregationist, racist way of life and mental disorder. Hackman's sheriff might have a bigoted blood flowing through him but it wasn't the severity that those Ku Klux Klan-brainwashed, lynching, decapitating, noose-hanging, town flows through their veins. He looked kindly on the Blacks, although he knew there are things that two races couldn't twain met. The best quotable line from this film is "This is worth fighting for!"
Along with Mississippi Burning, I found also a combination 4K edition of Sicario and Sicario 2 (Day Of The Soldado), two films that I deemed the finest action drama on the United States' sisyphean fight against Mexican drug lords. These are ultra-violent films, very vivid and graphic in their depictions of the drug lords' depravity and thoroughness to push their poison to America's borders and would kill everyone who'll deter them from doing so. Benicio Del Toro's night of reckoning against the top drug lord in his dining table along with his wife and children, is unforgettable. They truly deserved it....
