The plot goes around a real event, a murderer, presumably a member of KKK or any supremacist movement in southern US, who decided to kill a black rights activist late at night, in 1963, i.e. in a totally adverse environment for those who were not whites, and where the supposed justice was in their hands, almost all of them as racist as those who practiced apartheid in South Africa.
The value of the film is that it shows us how a large part of a population thinks about the institutional that existed in the past, how there are white people who do not want that story to be touched again and do not accept that at present the justice corrects what it did not do before. The performances of Whoopy Goldberg and Alec Baldwin are outstanding. In superlative terms, the one achieved by James Woods as the typical racist man. This actor in the scenes managed to cause disgust and rejection, and the same can be said of those who embodied the white defense lawyers in the film.
Review of Ghosts of Mississippi
