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Plot summary:
The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fabulous \old town\of Maycomb, Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of, and fascinated by, their neighbor, the reclusive \
Atticus is appointed by the court to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability.
Despite significant evidence of Tom's innocence, the jury convicts him. Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken, as is Atticus', when a hopeless Tom is shot and killed while trying to escape from prison.
Favorite scenes:
1.The scary moment on this film when Jem and Scout are walking home together in the woods with Scout wearing her Ham costume.
2.Atticus does not want children to be present at Tom Robinson's trial, Scout, Jem, and Dill watch in secret from the colored balcony.
3.In the court, Atticus establishes that the accusers—Mayella and her
father, Bob Ewell, the town drunk—are lying.It becomes clear that the friendless Mayella was making sexual advances towards Tom and her father caught her and beat her badly.
The character:
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch - The narrator and protagonist of the story. She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy. Scout has a combative streak and a basic faith in the goodness of the people in her community. As the movie progresses, this faith is tested by the hatred and prejudice that emerge during Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout eventually develops a more grown-up perspective that enables her to appreciate human goodness without ignoring human evil. Theme:
Its lessons of human dignity and respect for others remain fundamental and universal\Atticus' lesson to Scout that \never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it\exemplifies his compassion. while the movie concerns tragedy and injustice, heartache and loss, it also carries with it a strong sense of courage, compassion, and an awareness of history to be better human beings.\
Thumbs up or thumbs down:
Thumbs up. In a word, it is a movie that worth watching.
Four main themes of this movie:
1.The Coexistence of Good and Evil
The most important theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is the book’s exploration of the moral nature of human beings—that is, whether people are essentially good or essentially evil. The movie approaches this question by dramatizing Scout and Jem’s transition from a perspective of childhood innocence, in which they assume that people are good because they have never seen evil, to a more adult perspective, in which they have confronted evil and must incorporate it into their understanding of the world.
2. The moral voice of To Kill a Mockingbird is embodied by Atticus Finch, who is virtually unique in the novel in that he has experienced and understood evil without losing his faith in the human capacity for goodness. Atticus understands that, rather than being simply creatures of good or creatures of evil, most people have both good and bad qualities. The important thing is to appreciate the good qualities and understand the bad qualities by treating others with sympathy and trying to see life from
their perspective.
3.The Importance of Moral Education
Because exploration of the film’s larger moral questions takes place within the perspective of children, the education of children is necessarily involved in the development of all of the movie’s themes. In a sense, the plot of the story charts Scout’s moral education, and the theme of how children are educated—how they are taught to move from innocence to adulthood—recurs throughout the movie.
4.The Existence of Social Inequality
Differences in social status are explored largely through the overcomplicated social hierarchy of Maycomb, the ins and outs of which constantly baffle the children. These rigid social divisions that make up so much of the adult world are revealed in the movie to be both irrational and destructive.For example, Scout cannot understand why Aunt Alexandra refuses to let her consort with young Walter Cunningham.
Gothic Details in movie:
Among the Gothic elements in To Kill a Mockingbird are the unnatural snowfall, the fire that destroys Miss Maudie’s house, the children’s superstitions about Boo Radley, the mad dog that Atticus
shoots, and the ominous night of the Halloween party on which Bob Ewell attacks the children. These elements, out of place in the normally quiet, predictable Maycomb, create tension in the movie and serve to foreshadow the troublesome events of the trial and its aftermath. after Tom Robinson is shot, Mr. Underwood compares his death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds,” and at the end of the movie Scout thinks that hurting Boo Radley would be like “shootin’ a mockingbird.” Most important, Miss Maudie explains to Scout: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but . . . sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Therefore,horror is produced and the gothic atmosphere is highlighted, by way of which film reannounces its criticism of evil in the old American South and heralds the upcoming of a new American South.