Hollywood’s Mississippi Burning(1988) is a gripping portrayal of the tribulations experienced by those living in the South during the 1960’s. Despite embellishing, through the use of graphic images, music, and being spearheaded by the actings of Gene Hackman and Willem Defoe as Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Anderson and Ward respectively, Director Alan Parker provide a film that is satisfactory in telling the “heart of the truth.” In his film, Parker accurately depicts what typical life would be like in a racially charged town. From the opening viewers can begin to understand the hatred directed towards blacks, and anyone that is not Anglo-Saxon Christian. The first sequence is that of a woman singing gospel as separate but unequal
