Recently, I watched a great movie called The Secret Life of Bees. It's based on a novel with the same name, which I also read. It's a great book. Here's the synopsis of the movie:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life is shaped by her blurred memory of the afternoon of her mother's accidental death. When Lily's black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina.
Lily is lonely at home and feels that she is unloved by her father, T. Ray. However, with the help of August Boatwright, she is able to find that she has many people that love and care for her.
Lily is faced with trying to find out who she is because at her home she is not allowed to ask questions about her past. Lily does this in many ways, such as writing down her thoughts in a notebook, and finding her first love, Zachary Taylor. She finds out who she really is when she learns about her mother's past.
As you can see, this story happens in 1964, in South Carolina, where the discrimination was much rougher. And if you read one of my previous posts about American Civil Rights Movement, you come to the conclusion that it happened in the middle of that.
There's a situation in the movie where Rosaleen goes to register as a voter right around the time of the Voting Rights Act, and as she's going there, 3 white men ask her where she's going and say that she can't vote if she can't write her own name, and start insulting her. So, with her bottle of chewing tobacco, she writes with that liquid her name in the shoes of one of those white. She gets punched right after and beaten by the three men, and she's arrested.
Specially with this moment, we can see how discriminated black people were and how police would always stand for white people. Here's a video of that scene:
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Bees
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