How “Fences,” “Hidden Figures,” And “Loving” Navigate 1960s Racism Without Bloodshed
View this image › From left: Loving, Fences, and Hidden Figures. Focus Features; Paramount Pictures; 20th Century Fox ID: 10275544 When the civil rights period is depicted onscreen, there are sometimes billy golf equipment, fireplace hoses, assault canine, marches, and protests. Covering civil rights leaders — like in Malcolm X, or Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma — usually means exhibiting probably the most troublesome and bloody elements of the civil rights motion. This previous yr, nonetheless, a trio of flicks set within the 1950s and ’60s — Fences, Loving,…
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