Film Review: ‘The Rape Of Recy Taylor’

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Recy Taylor just passed away at the age of 97. I wasn't aware of this story.

Film Review: ‘The Rape Of Recy Taylor’
Jessica Kiang

December 8, 2017 11:57PM PT

If there’s one thing the past year has demonstrated, it’s that American society is not as modern as we thought. Just the last month has proven how much regressive gender and racial issues still plague the nation, as exemplified by the senatorial race in the state of Alabama. So Nancy Buirski’s accessible but uneven documentary “The Rape of Recy Taylor” — about the 1944 case of a 24-year-old black woman abducted and gang raped near her home in Abbeville, Ala., whose white abusers were never so much as arrested, let alone convicted of any crime — arrives at a pivotal moment, nationally and regionally.

Timing alone makes “The Rape of Recy Taylor” something close to essential viewing. But Buirski’s approach is oddly diffuse, lacking the clarity of rage that has informed so many recent touchpoints in social-issue documentary. Instead, the tone is mournful and a little misted over with time (especially in the first half), an effect magnified by Buirski’s evocative but sometime overpowering use of music, and the selection of black-and-white footage she uses to illustrate the story.

To the accompaniment of Dinah Washington’s desperately beautiful rendition of “This Bitter Earth,” layered on top of Max Richter’s increasingly familiar “On the Nature of Daylight,” these segments are, as some titles explain, largely culled from the “race films” of the era. These were films shot cheaply with largely African-American casts to show in makeshift theaters, churches and meeting halls in cinematically underserved black communities. But this fascinating take on the racial mores of the time from within that community is also a whole universe unto itself, meaning that trying to parse these fragments while Recy Taylor’s story is unfolding becomes a dissonant exercise. At best, it gives an impression of the pervasive racial panic of 1940s America from those at its pointy end; at worst, it distracts from a historically overlooked story.

Continued at: http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-rape-of-recy-taylor-review-1202633883/

Her obit reads that the men who committed this act admitted to it though, they were not indicted for it at the time.

Recy Taylor, who fought for justice after 1944 rape, dies
Associated Press 19 hrs ago

ABBEVILLE, Ala. — Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, died Thursday. She was 97.

Taylor died in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, her brother Robert Corbitt said. He said Taylor had been in good spirits the previous day and her death was sudden. She would have been 98 on Sunday.

Taylor was 24 when she was abducted and raped as she walked home from church in Abbeville. Her attackers left her on the side of the road in an isolated area. The NAACP assigned Rosa Parks to investigate the case, and she rallied support for justice for Taylor.

Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/recy-taylor-who-fought-for-justice-after-1944-rape-dies/ar-BBHsSqu?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Harrowing narrative.

[goatprairie]

Recy Taylor just passed away at the age of 97. I wasn't aware of this story.

Her obit reads that the men who committed this act admitted to it though, they were not indicted for it at the time.



Harrowing narrative.

This even happened over seventy years ago. A horrible event, but why are so many of these types of movies being made lately? 
What if some movie maker made a flick about white women being raped by mobs of black men? What do you think the outcry would be?
Well, the movie would be denounced as racist....true or not.
We have entered a period of history where movie makers and tv people are free to make films and productions showing white people i.e. white men in a very bad light.
However, the reverse is not true. A movie showing black people in a bad light cannot now be made. The original "Birth Of A Nation" depicted blacks as violent criminals. No such flick can be made now.

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If there’s one thing the past year has demonstrated, it’s that American society is not as modern as we thought. Just the last month has proven how much regressive gender and racial issues still plague the nation, as exemplified by the senatorial race in the state of Alabama.

No reason to read further. Authors that announce they are blooming liberal idiots taking pot shots where there is no clear shot. The men that raped Recy Taylor should of been hung from the nearest tree, but it has nothing to do with Roy Moore or Doug Jones (who's party got away with rape here). "Regressive gender" my butt... Gaystopa media clowns.