The bright little girl Jean Louise, called Scout, grows up with her older brother Jem(Jeremy) in a small city in Alabama of the 1930s. The world of both siblings is held together by her single father, the representative and lawyer Atticus Finch. Atticus is for the children a friend, confidant, teacher and authority. The world of thought of the children is enriched by the mysterious neighbour Arthur Boo Radley who never leaves the fatherly house. The intolerant world of the racism slowly penetrates into this childhood idyl. Atticus Finch, upright and without prejudice, will appeal from the judge to the assigned counsel the black farm worker Tom Robinson who is accused to have violated a young white woman. The majority of the white perceives him only as a part of the rejected black minority. Atticus is treated with hostility by many of his fellow citizens on account of his setting that a black owns the same rights like a white. His children also get this refusal to feel. In this sphere of prejudices and intolerance Atticus tries to stand by his children on the way in the growing-up. In the process Atticus can prove the undurability of the reproaches easily; among the rest because the supposed victim states wrong. Still bends the white jury to the unwritten law that the statement of a black is not to be believed towards of a white, and speaks the defendants guilty. The latter is shot shortly after with an escape attempt. On account of his engaged application for Tom Robinson has moved there Atticus Finch the hatred of the father of the supposed victim. One evening this waylays for the children, however, is stabbed in the wrangling by Boo Radley. Not to put out the shy Boo Radley to the collective curiosity of the provincial town, the death is shown as a fall of the culprit in own knife. Scout comments on this concealment with the remark that Boo may not be disturbed exactly like a nightingale. This late relation on the film title comes from the ban Atticus' to his children, the nightingale (in the original, however, a "Mockingbird" to hunt a mockery throttle) because " she sings only nicely and harms nobody something ".
Encyclopaedia of the international film:
A humanely moving, successful literature filming with the high ethical posture which enters persuasive against racism and for tolerance.
Filmstarts.de: A central statement of the film characterises the story maybe best of all. When Scout has fought a boy and does not want to go any more to the school because the teacher with her has got angry, Finch says to his daughter: " Now I will say to you a nice trick. You get by with it with all possible people much better. You understand a person properly when you the things or what just are it, also looks sometimes from his point of view if you creep sometimes in his skin and walk in it around. "
This statement and the fact that the film was turned in a time in which the discrimination of the afroamerican inhabitants of the states had quite different magnitudes than today do " To Doing in a Mocking Bird " a courageous report of the American film history whose statements own validity, however, after the concrete history also even today.
Prism on-line: Gregory Peck impresses as a frank citizen who, from the sense for justice and equal rights done, the racism, in the end, on own body gets to feel. Peck got for his great achievement rightly an Oscar.
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