Poetry, as likened to art, seems to depict a connection between lives concerning art. As portrayed in movies, fashion, music, dances, architecture, and literature imitate human beings’ real-life experiences. The past and modern art created defines time, meaning that people can differentiate when the art was created. In traditional times, some of the themes portrayed were death due to the lack of health resources, God as a natural being, and love (Lott, 2017). On the other hand, some common themes include globalization regarding technology in modern society, working due to employment, social class, science, and love.
Selma Movie Depiction of Martin Luther King
In Selma, David Oyelowo, a character who plays Martin Luther King’s role, fights for the right of voting in the southern region where registering was a predicament for African Americans. In the movie, King David Oyelowo is rewarded with a Nobel Prize as an ambassador of peace in Oslo, a worship place by the black, which the terrorists bombed, thus, killing four girls (Lott, 2017). As compared to reality, Martin Luther King is rewarded with a Nobel Prize in 1964 in Birmingham, a place where the bombing had taken place one year earlier.
In the movie, pressure is mounted on King by other political leaders from all carders of leadership levels. However, King is firm in matters of the fight against racism. The struggle is evident in the speech that he gives; words spoken support the people’s agenda (Lott, 2017). King’s life is instrumental and demonstrates a leader with a commitment to standing against the oppressed. The theme of the Selma movie has imitated Martin Luther King’s real-life in the fight against the oppression of black Americans.
Reference
Lott, M. (2017). The relationship between the “invisibility” of African American women in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and their modern film portrayal. Journal of Black Studies, 48(4), 331-354.