Movies About Complex Issues Like Racism, Rape And R... Health Care

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So I've recently remembered seeing the movie A Time To Kill, which deals with racism and somehow got stuck on the trailer for the movie John Q.

The thing I find interesting about these movies is that they're real. Okay, they're not really truth, but John Grisham based his novel "A Time To Kill" on real events. The idea I have is that these movies are trying to get a message out, in a generation that needed the messages. John Q was released in 2002, while A Time To Kill was based on a 1989 book - 1989 a somewhat racially charged time.

One could argue whether or not these kinds of films are made to get a message out. That they're only made to sensationalize, to entertain, to put butts in theater seats. In response I'm going to use a quote from a superhero movie:

Originally Posted by Elijah Price

I believe comics are a form of history that someone, somewhere felt or experienced. Then, of course, those experiences and that history got chewed up in the commercial machine, got jazzed up, made titillating...

Now like I said before, these movies aren't exact truth, they're more made to entertain. But sometimes a film maker tries to stick a message in the middle of it - why do you think that is? Why do they do it? Does it work? I think that last question depends on who the film-goer is. Looking at YouTube comments for the trailers is like submitting yourself, and grammar to torture.