The Report was a very shocking film. I was surprised to see the torture actually depicted and I wasn’t aware of this piece of history. I was disgusted to find out the vile ways of the CIA. I know that they’ve done heinous things in the past but I can’t help but be surprised with each new crime that's brought to light. The presentation in the beginning, demonstrated by two people who have never conducted a real interrogation with strategies…

This movie was much lighter than the last movie and I really enjoyed it. Hidden Figures was a really a lighthearted yet empowering movie about three extremely intelligent black women working for NASA in this sixties. Through their individual journeys, this film highlights the importance of acknowledging the intersecting identities that shape individuals' experiences and opportunities. It emphasizes the need for a more inclusive and equitable society that recognizes and addresses the complexities of intersecting oppressions. Mary, Dorothy, and Katherine…

This film did an incredible job depicting bias in the justice system and the manipulation of the justice system. A young black Harvard law graduate named Bryan Stevenson worked with death row inmates in Alabama and realizes that there is a great miscarriage of justice and that a lot of these inmates were falsely convicted and didn’t deserve to be on death row. A key aspect that I noticed almost immediately was that a majority of the death row inmates…

Selma was a powerful movement about Martin Luther King’s experience leading the civil rights movement post “I Have a Dream” speech, along with the events before and after the march in Selma. The movie started off in a powerful way, MLK received his Nobel Peace Prize for the deliverance of the iconic speech, only the next scene to be the infamous Birmingham Church bombing, which killed four young black girls. The message of the movement was clearly shown, that progress…